Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second meeting of the year, held last night in Westmorly Court, the Harvard Gun Club elected five new officers for the coming season. The men are as follows: president, M. M. Johnson '31, vice president, Robert Fielding '30, secretary, R. H. Dorr '29, treasurer, T. H. Dunn '31, executive officer, Nicholas Unkovic 28. At the meeting the club made its plan of activities for the shooting matches to be held this winter...
...atmosphere of an elite Harvard Square tea shoppe. According to them the atmosphere of their favorite afternoon rendez-vous is destroyed by half-dressed athletes and, with appropriate modesty and blushes, they insist that hairy nether limbs be confined to the gymnasium or, in this case, to the squash court...
...Navy's Court of Inquiry to investigate the S-4 disaster convened last week at Boston, visited the S-8 (sister of the 5-4. With the S-8, personnel and equipment arranged as the S-4's presumably had been, the Court quizzed the S-8's red-headed young commander, Lieut. Frank L. Worden, to visualize the instant and circumstances of the S-4's goring by the destroyer Paulding...
...Billaut, "in gay attire, seated in a chair," drew $24,000 from P. W. French & Co. P. W. French & Co. also paid the highest price?$28,000?that was offered for any single item. This secured them a bust of Madame de Wailly, wife of Charles de Wailly, court architect to the last king of France. A lady with long thick curls, a sullen mouth and a thick nose, her oblique but unmistakable disdain was not softened by the compliment...
...that she earned more than $100,000 in a single year from Victor records. A lawsuit made it public. The U. S. complained because she had felt exempt from an excess profit tax of $6,592; had paid; had sued for its return. In vain Mme. Gluck reminded the court that she had made those records as long ago as 1917, argued against paying tax on the 10% that still comes to her on every record sold. The U. S. won the decision, took no notice of the fact that Mme. Gluck sings little now, but keeps house instead...