Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Thomas Burke, 77, eminent Seattle lawyer, onetime Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory (later the state of Washington); at Manhattan, in the arms of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. He had been stricken with apoplexy while pleading for justice for Japan before his fellow-trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
Chess champions are rarely swashbucklers. They call their ties "cravats" and tie them neatly but docilely; they wear their hats on the middle of their hard round heads. Among the gentlemen at Moscow is the imperturbable veteran, Dr. Emanuel Lasker, who slightly resembles his late fellow-countryman, Dr. Immanuel Kant. The years have failed to shake his prestige; he looks on tempests and is never shaken. The shrewd American, Marshall, did well in the first rounds of the tournament; the great Russian, Bogoljubow, lived up to expectations; a young man named Torre rose like a red ascending star...
...right, then must every German who is not soaked with black-red-gold or sold to mammon, veil his head. Then the Field Marshal President is become a danger for the national will. His name does not belong under this treaty. That at least does he owe to his fellow-warriors. We expect the Field Marshal not to sign but to fight...
...Author. Louis Bromfield, a young fellow whose first book, The Green Bay Tree, made its mark among first novels, put forth his second novel not as a sequel but as a companion piece for his first. It covers approximately the same time, the first quarter of the present century, and includes several characters of his first novel, including Lily Shane. He takes himself seriously and promises to make these "panel novels" into a screen, "which, when complete, will consist of at least a half-dozen panels all interrelated...
...great fanfare of the college football season is at an end. The last frantic exhortation of cheer-leaders has died away. Teams have disbanded and broken training. Players are once more men and fellow students. And as the fever passes, the delirium ends, and normal sanity returns. Now in cool and balanced judgment we can look at football and see it as it is. The spell is broken...