Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certainly got a laugh when you called the new German Ambassador to Washington a "fair" tennis player (TIME, Nov. 14). If you mean a fellow who does not say "OUT" every time a ball lands within five feet of the baseline, a fellow who remembers the score when he is losing, a fellow who, in other words is "on the level," that is O. K. But maybe you just meant to say " a pretty rotten tennis player." This is something different. I got a laugh because I don't think you knew which one you meant. Which is this...
Under the auspices of the Harvard Classical Club, Professor Alexander Souter, Professor of Latin at the University of Aberdeen and Fellow of the British Academy, will lecture this evening at 8 o'clock on "Saint Augustine" in the Old Fogg Museum, at a meeting open to the public. Professor Souter, is a noted classicist and authority on the Bible...
Anyone who has taken History 1 knows Peter the Great of Russia, and has labeled him a fine old fellow who went West, pushing against the tide of the Drang Nach Ostne, and came back to make his subjects shave their beards, build a navy, and become generally enlightened...
Mississippi was the other State to elect a Governor. Theodore Gilmore Bilbo was the Democratic nominee. The voters knew him well-Odd Fellow, Elk, Mason, Baptist, Woodman, etc., etc., onetime (1908-12) State Senator, onetime (1912-16) Lieutenant Governor, onetime (1916-20) Governor. His opponents revivified bribery charges of which Mr. Bilbo was acquitted in 1916,- but election is a mere gesture in Mississippi. The Democratic nomination is all that matters. Nominee Bilbo became Governor-elect Bilbo once again...
During a performance of Otello, President Insull of the Chicago Civic Opera was accosted by one Charles W. King, a wild-eyed fellow who shook his fist and babbled threats "for the way he'd treated Lorna Doone Jackson."*Courteously President Insull listened, took Mr. King's arm, walked with him down the foyer to the manager's office, apparently to give him better chance to air his grievances. There he turned him over to detectives, who ordered him to a psychopathic hospital where doctors found him insane...