Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present plans the inside of the main building is merely divided into squares. It is probable however that about 18 squash courts will occupy the ground and second floors; in the basement there may be a second and smaller swimming pool, primarily for beginners, and on the third floor three basketball courts may be built, a large central floor being flanked on either side by a slightly smaller court. For intercollegiate basketball games on the center court, stands may be erected on the two smaller courts...
...Great Britain and the popular prejudice of the times against them, it is small wonder that the American attitude of regarding the unrestrained common law judge as a partisan monster should be formulated. The successive steps which have relegated him to the level of the practitioners in his court are only logical ones for a nation desiring personal liberty above all things...
Boston, it has often been said, is in the last stages of decay--its ancient and vaunted "culture" gone to places where is will be more appreciated. Novels and magazine articles have been written on the subject, and trial cases have been fought in Boston's police court to establish the right of culture to be forced down decadent throats by authors and publishers of more learned cities...
...I.C.C., which sits behind a long desk much like the Supreme Court's to render decisions and build up a body of law almost as fundamental as Supreme Court precedent, is composed mostly of lawyers who have gained reputations for patience and probity. They are not "distinguished" men, as distinction goes, but they are able and honorable. Commissioner John Jacob Esch of La Crosse, Wis., chairman of the Commission last year, served in the U. S. House of Representatives for 21 years before his work with Senator Albert Baird Cummins of Iowa on the Transportation Act of 1920 brought...
...order that rehearsals for the spring production may begin early in March, all manuscripts must be handed in on or before February 20 at Westmorly Court...