Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stars on human destiny, there is no denying that reputable astrologists go about their work with the precision of a mathematician. In New York State, for example, the practice of astrology has been legalized on a par with medicine and law. And last week in Ohio the State Supreme Court upheld licensed astrologers, but in a rather backhanded way. It grouped astrologers with other fortune-tellers under the definition: "one who pretends to a knowledge of futurity and foretells the events of one's life," and said that the old Ohio law prohibiting these practices without licenses is still valid...
Married. Supreme Court Justice Townsend Scudder, 63, presiding Judge in the Snyder-Gray murder trial, investigator of the Queens (New York City) sewer scandal, potential Democratic candidate for the Governorship of New York; to Miss Alice Booth McCutcheon, 42, daughter of the late James McCutcheon, linen merchant, and founder of the Manhattan store of that name; at Greenwich, Conn...
...silver box, a receptacle for cigarets, is stolen by a rebellious drunkard, Mr. Jones, to express his antipathy toward the upper classes who have deprived him of the privilege of working for a living. His wife, a charwoman, is suspected of the theft; but before the case reaches court, it becomes obvious that the true culprit is vapid young John Barthwick Jr. who, in a state of supreme inebriation, had been assisted into his father's home by Mr. Jones, thereby allowing the latter the opportunity for his theft. The last act, a trial scene, allows rich young Barthwick...
...School was remodeled it was organized as a Graduate School, but an inconsistency appeared between this and the provision in the will of Gordon McKay to the effect that students should be admitted who had only the education that the common schools afford. After the decision of the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth had disallowed the combination with the Massachusetts institute of Technology, the School of Engineering was again reorganized, this time for both undergraduate and graduate work, and it is perhaps in the latter that the School can render its most valuable service to the community. There are plenty...
...small hours of Saturday morning a mysterious prowler slipped out of the darkness and haunted Westmorly Court, sending chills up and down the spines of some of the awakened students as they trembled beneath the sheets, talking unconcernedly with others who were burning the midnight oil, and after a hairbreadth escape vanished in the murky grey dawn with over $100 in cash and over a dozen gold watches...