Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asked and it was not until he took off his hat to shake off mud and gravel whirled up by the Lobbyist's propellers, that newsgatherers spotted him as 87-year-old Oliver Wendell Holmes, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. He walked back to his car, where his wife was waiting and exclaimed: "It was thrilling! Simply thrilling...
...ruling by Justice Jennings Bailey of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia that the Fall and Sinclair cases be separated, Fall's case to be postponed indefinitely, Sinclair's to be tried beginning April...
Also due to Senator Nye, the name of Justice Frederick Lincoln Siddons of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, by whom Sinclair was lately tried and sentenced for contempt of court, was momentarily dragged into the case, then dropped when a mysterious package of '"bonds" turned out to be Christmas cards. The spirit of error spread. In the Senate, the Republican Robinson, from politically malodorous Indiana, arose and inquired if Harry F. Sinclair had not been a New York State horse-race commissioner from 1922 to 1925. Senator Nye jumped up and volunteered that it was his "understanding...
Their Majesties announced last week that five courts will be held at Buckingham Palace this spring?on May 8, 9, and 23 and on June 12 and 13. Usually there are only four courts, permitting about 26 U. S. women to be presented to their Majesties, but with the addition of a fifth court, this year, some six or seven more U. S. females than usual will achieve presentation...
...Legal Aid Society, run by law students, gives advice on legal matters free of charge. If a case is carried to court, the bureau demands merely that its expenses in conducting the case be paid. All types of cases have been handled, except bankruptcy and admiralty. Cases of contracts, bills, and between landlord and tenant comprise most of the suits. Advice has been sought even on divorce, and once on international affairs...