Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Fuller and his Advisory Committee both completed their investigation and the Governor announced an early decision. Then came another delay in the long delayed case when Alvan T. Fuller Jr., the Governor's 12-year-old son, was stricken with appendicitis and taken to Massachusetts General Hospital for an operation. The operation was successfully performed, but Governor Fuller not unnaturally had his attention diverted from the Sacco-Vanzetti case by his son's illness...
...Bratiano begins when his valet awakens him at 9 a.m., presenting a light, Parisian breakfast of coffee and rolls. Although punctual about this breakfast hour, M. Bratiano is, thereafter, the acme of exquisite and sophisticated ease-of nicely timed delay. "I try to put off until tomorrow," he has said, "the mistakes which people tell me I ought to make today...
...Curtiss, Chairman, Miss Harriet Hayward; H. R. Wood, Miss Jane Richards; Henry Ware, Miss Isabelle Lothrop; W. E. Soule, Miss Elizabeth Pullman; K. B. Harding, Miss Dorothea Cheney; J. W. Hurlbut, Miss Marion DeLay; Howard Slade, 2nd, Miss Anne Tudor...
...have been that this time the company he takes in hand is in no hole. It owns many factories, its own asbestos mines. The Merseles genius will have a clear field to try and put fireproof ("try an' burn it") roofing on the whole U. S. without delay...
...winner of the CRIMSON'S annual school newspaper trophy will not be announced until next fall, it was made known last night. The total number of competitors for the award this year, over double that of last year, has necessitated a delay, in the final choice of the winner. The contestants have been narrowed to nine, and the winner will be named shortly after the opening of college in the fall...