Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Mayor of Chicago was declared guilty, with six other men, of conspiring to defraud Chicago of $1,732,-279.23. Judge Hugo Friend of the Circuit Court wrote the decision, ordered the Mayor and his fellows to restore the boodle...
...millions, had been caught, had got out. He suspected one Franklin L. Dodge Jr., a onetime U. S. Prohibition agent, of conspiring with Imogene Remus, his wife, to get his money and his life. Mrs. Remus and Dodge were paramours, Remus said. So, the morning Mrs. Remus started for court to press her divorce suit, George Remus drove alongside her car in a Cincinnati park, chased her across the grass, shot her dead. He was allowed to act as his own lawyer in his murder trial. The trial became a disorderly farce. The jury acquitted him on the ground...
...Nuthall, but both Mrs. Watson and Miss Bennett beat skinny, brown-faced Molla Mallory, who was once unbeatable. Everything depended on the doubles. Playing with Penelope Anderson, Miss Wills kept looking around nervously to see if she was expected to take balls that dropped in the middle of the court. Unsure at the net, she stayed in the back court, hit her drives hard, but kept putting them out or in the net with the result that she and her partner were beaten, 6-2, 6-1. This is the first time the Englishwomen have won the Wightman Cup since...
Only two knightly orders of the Papal court surpass Mr. Brady's Order of St. Gregory the Great. They...
...York Supreme Court labored six days and rested on the seventh, labored again six days and on the second seventh counted his labors. In the fortnight he had called 18,146 cases to his bar. Four out of five he was obliged to continue. Yet the nearly 4,000 cases of which he disposed represented amazingly expeditious, probably record, court action...