Word: davenport
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...late, onetime (1877-1911) U. S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan; brother of onetime (1906-18) Interstate Commerce Commission James S. Harlan; brother of Educator Richard Davenport Harlan ("the George Washington University Movement") ; father of the present Assistant U. S. District Attorney for Southern New York John Marshall Harlan (TIME, May 31). Twenty years ago, Chicago surface lines, well plundered, were in receivership. Lawyer John Maynard Harlan represented, the. court, then...
...some gentlemen talk with their fingers. They talked in an ancient language, for they were dealer's agents, and their nodding heads, their twitching forefingers, indicated bids of a thousand, of ten thousand pounds. When a little picture on the scaffold (George Romney's portrait of Mrs. Davenport, seated, 30 by 25 inches) was knocked down to Sir Joseph Duveen's man for approximately $260,000, the elegant watchers burst into applause. Romney's Lady Hamilton brought $65,000. And Sir Joshua Reynold's Cimon and Iphigenia brought $60. And Van Dyke's Infant...
...Yale team was forced by the nature of the question to rely chiefly on wit and humorous effects to support the affirmative, while the Crimson debaters had the advantage of being able to bring into play the more serious aspects of the matter. Basil Davenport, the last speaker for the affirmative, showed himself particularly adept at warding off his opponents by a brilliant and witty line of argument...
...Yale team was composed of H. G. Rowell, H. H. Thompson, and Basil Davenport, while E. C. Sibley '28, D. S. Dickson '27, and I. J. Fain '27 represented Harvard. Professor I. S. Winter, Professor Emeritus of Public Speaking at Harvard, was the chairman of the debate, and Professor C. Edmund Neil, of Boston University, Mr. James E. King, of the Boston Transcript editorial staff, and the Reverend William R. Leslie, of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Brookline, were the judges...
...Basil Davenport, the final speaker for the affirmative delivered the most brilliant speech of the evening, and won the audience over to the Yale position. He began by complaining that education dried up one's sense of humor. He also asked how education could recompease us for the diseases and evils which it brings on us and then is itself necessary to cure them. Going off on a different line. Davenport represented himself as a Spartan coming to Athens, which was represented by Harvard, to show the people there that their ideal of education was not the one on which...