Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well for the Nominee, because many of his details were ill-chosen, incorrect. That the main point was felt and resented in Washington was seen next day when Secretary Mellon issued a long parrying statement which knocked most of the Smith details, though not the main point, out of court...
Maurice E. Connolly, for 17 years Borough President of Queens, N. Y., has not been spitting, grass-walking, disturbing. But last week, in the Queens County Court House, he was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the City in $29,500,000 contracts for sewer construction. Famed Lawyer Emory Roy Buckner, conducting the State's prosecution, showed circumstantial evidence that Mr. Connolly had aided the late John M. ("Gentleman Jack") Phillips to achieve a sewer pipe monopoly in Queens Borough. In 1917 specifications were doctored to require the kind of pipe that only Mr. Phillips could sell. From...
...histories, a score of sonnets, until the Queen summoned him to Whitehall. Chains of office, jewelled Garter, sad embassy to the Queen of Scots, but from the bitter Polish Wars Elizabeth detained her darling. Her old heart broke when in a mirror she watched him make merry with a court wanton...
...King celebrated his coronation with an ice carnival on the frozen Thames, and there Orlando fell passionately in love with a Muscovite Princess. His verse likened her to a pineapple, an emerald, a fox in the snow; and for weeks their bliss was the gossip of the icebound court. Then she jilted him, and he went into a trance...
...officers, was caught on board; how Soussanin, a loose-lipped fellow, enemy of the captain, detected her in the cabin of her onetime wooer and made trouble. And how the suitor, Donald Reed, killed him and was killed himself in battle with the Istria. The gentlemen of the admiralty court put on their caps and declare the Captain innocent. Best shots: Miss Dove in evening dress...