Word: courting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perched on a cornice in the private side passage, into which bulges the Chamber's semicircular wall, an observer would behold this year's line of march of the nation's highest court, as follows...
Then Associate Justices McReynolds, Sutherland and Sanford, the last two wearing the Court's only chin-whiskers. August in black-silk, tailored to flow sedately, to their tasks they file...
Despite the nation's disappointment, the baby Princess was not neglected last week. Scarcely was her weight, 7¼ pounds, announced than the Lord Chamberlain Admiral Suzeki in elaborate court costume entered the royal nursery, bent over the royal bassinet, and laid a short ceremonial dagger beside the little Princess, a gift from her father the Emperor Hirohito which she will have by her all through her life to protect her from harm. Because she is a girl, he laid beside the dagger a tiny purple hakama, or ceremonial skirt. Soon came government officials led by bushy-browed Prime...
...Joseph Pershing, visiting Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch on his Scotland estate, had gone grouse shooting. This in itself was not news; generals are expected to like to pull triggers now and then. The news was that General Pershing had been so careless as to hit in the face Supreme Court Justice Richard Paul Lydon instead of a grouse...
...accidental meeting at an exposition in the century's early years, a wedding in a registry office with two charwomen as witnesses. Years later their only daughter gives herself to a married man who lives in the flat below and dies in childbirth. Barcaldine faces a bankruptcy court. But always there are subtle filaments which bind man and wife -"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown...