Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from running riot," was the belief expressed by Morrison Sharp '29 last night at a debate conducted by the Harvard Debating Union. "Life imprisonment in the state of New York means on the average six and a half years. Time works for the criminal. Time brings on a corrupt court, and starts the sob sister stuff...
...Pure Oil Co., which was one of the original owners of the much-bickered oil bought and sold by Continental?yielded nothing illuminating on the witness stand. Col. Stewart submitted to the Senate's arrest in his hotel room, ate his meals under surveillance. Then he got a court to free "his body, wherever found," by a writ of habeas corpus. Perhaps he reflected, as did observers, that at least it was lucky he was not Beman Gates Dawes, to whom a Senate trial would involve fraternal embarrassment...
Shyster lawyers propped unshined shoes on dirty desks and snickered. At Justice Joseph M. Proskauer of the New York Supreme Court* their giggles were aimed...
...marked the play of the victors; most of their scores were the result of short cleverly executeed passes which caught the Harvard defense unawares. The Harvard five, on the other hand, showed a glaring lack of team work, and counted mostly on long shots from all parts of the court for its tallies...
...second quarter-final of the Ames Competition held in Langdell Hall Center Friday night. F.S. Balthis Jr. 2L., and F.F. Houser 2L. of the Sutherland Law Club, represented the plaintiff, while McConnaughey and Pride were the attorneys for the defendant. The case was argued before a court of three justices, who are: Dean Roscoe Pound, Hon '20, Chief Justice; George P. Davis '14, of the firm of Dunbar, Nutter, and McClennen, and Francis N. Balch '96, of 60 State Street, Boston, Associate Justices. The Warren Club was awarded the verdict by a 6 1-2 to 5 1-2 vote...