Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...caption, "Eloquent Hoosier," in TIME, May 17, under EDUCATION ? Professor Brigance may well be proud of the orator he has trained for victory this year, and of the splendid record made by Wabash in recent years; but his suggestion that his college has an undisputed claim to the hypothetical "crown of American oratory" is tenable only if the contests of the last few years are taken into account. Beloit College won the Interstate Contest in 1899 and again in 1902, 1903 and 1904-four times in six years, and three times consecutively, drawing far ahead of DePauw, the main contender...
...Metropolitan Open Golf Tournament, after beginning the final round three strokes behind small swart MacDonald Smith , small swart Gene Sarazen regained the three strokes and three more, seemed to have the crown in the bottom of his immense bag. Then, on the last two holes, came a three-putt green and a fumbled approach, and he and Smith were tied...
Attorney Britt (council for Bootlegger Smith) : "But suppose a man should set himself up as a professional murderer of Cabinet Ministers . . . . Would not the Crown refuse to receive taxes from the murderer's source of income, lucrative though it might...
...Clauson (attorney for the Crown) : "One has only to look into a man's pockets, and if there are profits there, that is enough for the tax gatherer. I do not say that if the pockets be full of stolen spoons one spoon should be taken as a tax on burglary. There is a valid distinction between profits and loot...
...racing sails taken out of their boxes, his boat was as dry as when it started. He had brought it over to win the Norwegian gold cup and this, after three days of racing and after having been disqualified in one race, it did, beating a yacht owned by Crown Prince Olaf