Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Professor A. L. Goodhart of Cambridge University, American and English legal authority, and now visiting professor at the Yale Law School. After studying at Yale and Cambridge, he started his practice at the New York bar. In 1919 he was admitted to the English bar, and subsequently became a fellow and lecturer at Cambridge. In addition to these positions he is editor-in-chief of "The Law Quarterly Review" of that University...
...daily press that Fred Stone is at present a broken-legged individual, or at best a golfing convalescent, we would go up to this Mr. Woods, and holding him gently between the thumb and forefinger say "You are Fred Stone!" For never have we seen such a resemblance. This fellow looks exactly like Fred, and has a voice which would deceive Mrs Stone. If his dancing were slightly better, we would be convinced beyond doubt and Charles Dillingham and Will Rogers couldn't make us retract. But as things are, it is just an optical illusion; one of the better...
...nevertheless upon the latest Merchant Marine Act (Jones-White) under which eleven great Shipping Board vessels were recently sold (TIME, Feb. 18). All day every day during Senate sessions he can be found in his aisle seat, behind an embankment of papers and books, hard at work. No hail-fellow-well-met, he is not on easy, congenial terms with the average handshaking, backslapping Senators. His Republican colleagues preferred Indiana's easy-going Watson to him as Republican leader to succeed Charles Curtis...
...jobless. Meanwhile jaunty David Lloyd George, the Welsh Wizard of Liberalism, waves his empty silk hat and promises (TIME, March 25) to conjure out of it enough borrowed money to keep all the unemployed busy on road building and public works for five years. The steady-going fellow with the umbrella is Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, imperturbable leader of the Conservatives. He has spent all his life "muddling through" and has got on well enough. Just now he seems to have no very definite program; but, unlike many of his Conservative followers, he is not worried about that. Last week...
...majority of the characters in the book are a bit balmy−including the detective, Philo Vance, an arty fellow, who smokes Regie cigarets and says "amazin' " for amazing. Chess and higher mathematics are discussed and rediscussed until the reader, too, is a bit balmy...