Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After lagging behind the Wesleyan five for the greater part of the first half, the University basketball team forged ahead to swamp the Middletown team 41 to 24, in a swift and hard fought game on the Hemenway court last night. A few minutes before the close of the first period a sudden spurt brought the University quintet into the lead, the half ending...
...personal cash account. Room at Hotel Woodstock $ 5.00 Telephoned home 12 times 11.30 Repairs to dignity (especially trousers) 6.50 Taxi to Ferroni's 2.10 Refreshments at Ferroni's 20.00 A6. A8, Booth Theatre 17.00 Taxi to Booth Theatre 3.20 Lady in A4, Booth Theatre (settled out of court) 23.40 Lady in A8, Booth Theatre (Heart Balm) 7.70 Taxi to Madison Avenue and 84th St. 1.40 1 Pane glass (billed) 2.15 1 Broken heart (cooed) .63 Smelling salts for hostess 1.00 Refreshments 5.00 (Entry illegible) 33.00 Refreshments 5.00 Taxi, 2 blocks, protested by driver .15 Received from driver for vacating...
...when a pastor sees a menacing umbrella, he attempts to wrest it from the hands of the brandisher, and break it against future attacks. And in his failure to do so, he betrays the weakness of his body. Such was the case of Dr. Straton who recently lost in court his case against a militant atheist whose propaganda was hardly worthy of such attention...
...Amendment in 1919. In 1926, the people of New York modified the sustaining act. Governor Smith flayed those politicians who had prevented a referendum on the Amendment in the first place. Of the future he said: "Under our form of government and guided by the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States [declaring national Prohibition binding upon States], the question . . . is removed from the States and is focused upon the national legislature at Washington. Gradually our people are beginning to realize that there and only there can any change in the present status be made...
...curb to carnality, since no man wants his entire income to be claimed by promiscuous children. Last week, however, a test case was curiously decided in Moscow when 10 unmarried mothers claimed support for their 32 children from a rich peasant, Ivan Bourov. In Bourov's case, the Court laid down a broad, general principal: "One third of a citizen's income is the maximum percentage which can be claimed for support of his children, however numerous...