Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University Library will receive $15,000 from the estate of the late Alice Longfellow according to the terms of her will which was filed in the Middlesex Probate Court yesterday. This sum which was one of many public bequests is to constitute a perpetual fund in honor of her father who held a professorship in modern languages in the University. The gift stipulates that this fund is to be known as the Henry Wads worth Longfellow Fund, the income of which is to be used in the purchase of library books in foreign languages to aid in the studies...
...Permanent Court of International Justice," Mr. Wynne, Harvard...
...Miss Stoner were printed in metropolitan dailies last week. Among them: "I've got myself into the worst mess of all the messes I've been in. I've lost Bainbridge Colby,* who was my mental mate, given pain to Mother Stoner and must go to court to fight for a bracelet which was given to me. . . . It's taking a long time to live down the child-wonder business and how sick I am of hearing that word...
Only the plea of the 'jury which convicted him saved Rev. W. F. Larowe, in Savannah, from doing three months in jail. He was put on probation. The prosecuting attorney called the court's attention to the fact that, since his arrest, the minister had already spent some time behind bars. The jury recommended "extreme mercy...
Last week he crawled into court and confessed that the pretty brunette has everything that once was his: name, magazine, bank book, glass-topped desk, stenographers aplenty of her own. He wanted some of it back again...