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...than my play On The Spot." When a young London shoemaker, one Arthur Cox, was hailed into Old Bailey for shooting at two bobbies (whom he missed), the Magistrate showed himself Legs-conscious. After sentencing Shoemaker Cox to ten years' penal servitude for "shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm," Mr. Justice Wright said: "It would be an unfortunate thing for this country if the use of firearms became common. I feel it the duty of this court to visit such conduct as the prisoner's with condign punishment. I hope the sentence will have some effect...
...fund quietly to give the scrubwomen their "due" as a Christmas present, they would have been doing a generous thing and at the same time appeasing their own consciences. In acting beyond this, they are doing the University, whose fair name they are so assiduously attempting to clear, grievous injury. No possible good can come from dragging an already unsavoury story out for more publicity and unfavorable comment by a press always on the alert to give Harvard a black...
...have a grievous complaint to register against my employer, the Harvard CRIMSON. It concerns my prediction for the second Worlds Series game. After investigation I have discovered that the proofreader has wagered money on the Cardinals and maliciously altered my score, in order to aid him in amassing ill-gotten gains...
...great English country house, one of the many built to be the glory of the aristocracy but becoming its grievous burden, is the dominating personality of this novel. The figures of the story are drawn from the unreal, tightly woven society of the reign of King Edward VII. Characters and house together present the argument: that there is no living under the weight of aristocratic tradition, but only a formalized existence of satisfying present appearances and ancient responsibilities...
Summer is the season in which most actors are out of work. When two or three actors are gathered together in summer the talk inevitably turns to the grievous condition of their industry, the ills of the past season, possible remedies...