Word: courting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Diplomat Dawes. Upon the backstage scene appeared Charles Gates Dawes, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. London had altered his standardized attire: a batwing collar replaced the well-known high turndown with V-opening; in place of the famed, florid hand-sewn neckties made by an old friend of his mother, now deceased, was a typically British cravat. He explained: "I've an alibi now. I'm a diplomat...
...judges sitting in the court for the first case are the Honorable J. A. Lowell '91. United States District Judge for Massachusetts, the Honorable R. P. Dietzman '05, Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, and the Honorable F. T. Field, Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. The clubs in the case are the Scott club, represented by E. B. Hanley, Jr. 3L and C. A. Howard, Jr. 3L and the Bryce club, represented by E. Darling 3L and C. T. Lane...
...judges for the second case, which concerns Corporation Law, are the Honorable E. H. Brewster, United States District Judge for Massachusetts, the Honorable T. L. Marble, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, and the Honorable J. S. Murdock, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island. The clubs arguing in this case are the Warren club, represented by V. V. R. Booth 31, and R. F. Young 3L, and the Chafee club, represented by R. F. Carney...
...London magistrate's court a Mrs. Albert Cratchitt, estranged from her husband, was being sued for nonpayment of bills. Trouble reconciled the Cratchitts. In the dock Albert Cratchitt, beaming, prosperous, appeared beside his wife...
Dramatic critics, like oldtime court jesters, have more than poet's license. The monarch public, easy to amuse, hard to offend, suffers them gladly. Avowedly criticizing plays, they sometimes overindulge in gossip, in personalities. Some days they go too far. Manhattan has its suave George Jean Nathan. London has emaciated Hannen Swaffer...