Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...baseball who live in the vicinity of Boston to attend a dinner at the Varsity Club the night the candidates are called out will be repeated again this year. This idea was inaugurated by last year's Harvard manager, Davidson Sommers '26 and was received with much favor by the graduates who are interested in baseball. In addition to the graduate guests, the members of the nine who had won their insignia the previous year were among those who attended the dinner...
Tommy. Playwrights Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson have hit upon an intriguing situation: a boy in love with a girl, the girl in love with him, the wedding bells dumb because the girl's parents also favor the match. Once the hero succeeds in irritating the parents into objecting, the heroine's vast desire for a gesture of romantic rebellion is gratified and the wedding accomplished. What the playwrights have done with this tempting situation is, first, to build up an impressive number of ingenious but superficial complications, explaining each little complication as it approaches, when it arrives...
...incompetence, in- human treatment of convicts, insubordination and drunkenness. The Warden replies that the Governor is a Klansman and wants to parole or pardon most of his convicts. The two officials have been snarling at each other for two years. Governor Morley went out of office last week in favor of Governor Adams; Warden Tynan was not grieved...
...authorities of Williams College in requiring a pledge from every member of each fraternity to obey "The laws of the college, the state and the land" before permission is granted for the annual house parties and festivities. It is reported that most of the fraternities are in favor of rejecting the requirement, which may result in the abandoning of some of the usual functions next month. This action of the Williams faculty is undoubtedly motivated by a conscientious desire to remove an existing evil. But no matter how earnest its endeavor, the faculty can never accomplish its purpose without...
Texas. With pardon-seekers crowding in the capitol, Governess Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson prepared to retire on Jan. 19 in favor of Dan Moody. Last week, "Ma," with the advice of "Pa," pardoned a bigamist, a onetime mayor who had killed his son-in-law and 27 lesser convicts. During the 22 months of her governorship, "Ma" has issued some 3,000 clemency proclamations...