Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the Westchester Biltmore clubhouse. That evening a telegram came from her father advising her to stop playing tennis for three months. A Manhattan doctor examined her, emphasized this counsel, and as if everything had been settled the West Side Tennis Club confirmed the rumor that she would not defend her title this year Tilden. In the East-West team matches at Forest Hills, Tilden beat William M. ("Little Bill") Johnston, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1, 6-1. It was a dull match. Johnston's game did not seem impressive, but then it has rarely seemed impressive against...
...Frank Norris in TIME, July 26 [RELIGION, p. 18], which I regard as an unwarranted irruption of blackguardism. I hold no brief for the Southern preacher ; if a fair trial establishes the fact that he is guilty he should pay the penalty for his crime. Neither do I defend Fundamentalism and Fundamentalists as such ; but I do believe in the integrity of the Bible as the sure word of God including the Genesis story of Creation, and in historical Christianity as believed in and taught by the Church for the past two thousand years. It is evident from your jocose...
...Court Conference will meet in Geneva coincident with the regular September League Assembly, and will presumably crystalize international opinion on the U. S. reservations. Since the Senate's conditions for adherence are somewhat ail-inclusively vague, and since no U. S. representative will be present to explain or defend them, the usual European barrage of recrimination may be expected to burst forth...
...Forbes of the Potash Importing Co. of America, the U. S. agents of the German participants immediately sprang to defend his principles: "The German Potash Syndicate has absolutely prevented any possibility of the potash market being cornered to the detriment of the farmer. Prices have been maintained at the lowest level consistent with the costs of production and marketing. . . . The syndicate has never restricted potash production...
Joseph ("Fog Horn") Westwood (diminutive Laborite M. P., leaping up and pointing at Colonel Lane-Fox) : "The coward! The dirty, dastardly coward! My aged1 father has been locked out of his work at the mines, and this dastard says my father isn't going to defend my mother...