Word: halt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appearance of the President's Report is always the signal for a momentary halt in the academic whirl, when old values and traditions are weighed, new ideas discussed, and approved or rejected. In his report Mr. Lowell, speaking of the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences, said that "the glory of a university is the enticement and production of scholars destined to be eminent in their fields." To better secure this end he suggested to the Governing Boards that a Society of Fellows be established, composed of brilliant young men, for the purpose of furthering an atmosphere of intellectual...
...French Senate and Chamber circles the de Chappedelaine plan received prompt, warm support last week, seemed likely to be taken up by the French Foreign Office for diplomatic presentation to the Great Powers. "We must halt the insane race for greater speeds and excessive tonnage," puffed Senator A. A. Rio, Chairman of the Senate Marine Commission. "The danger is evident and can become mortal...
...Lewisburg lynchings were executed with the drilled precision of a first-class football backfield. With dimmed headlights and without license plates, a string of automobiles quietly circled the Greenbrier County jail, came to a halt. A group of 60 masked men filed up to the jail door. The keeper was summoned, seized, forced to give up his keys. Shivering in their underclothes, Jackson & Banks were taken to the edge of town, strung up to the cross arm of a telephone pole, side by side. Someone gave an order. Stepping back from the pole, the mob raised guns to shoulders, riddled...
...three years' separation. Last week the Baltic Reno appeared in U. S. headlines. In Riga, striving once more to divorce Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean, was Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post. Mrs. McLean, having stopped one Mexican divorce by a court order, was working desperately to halt this by another. She obtained a temporary injunction from Justice Wheat of the District of Columbia Supreme Court. With Publisher McLean was a Miss Rose Douras Van Cleve, widely identified by the U. S. Press as a sister of Marion Davies. Other Riga divorce-getters, di-vorce-seekers: Impresario...
...troupe went touring-from Buffalo early last month, continuing in Colorado. Utah, Oregon and California last week. Everywhere, audiences seem to represent a class which could not be won by smart, theatrical revivalism. To city theatres, churches, convention halls go elderly, placid people, some blind, some lame or halt, who might not have gone out since the last Chautauqua or travelog in the church basement. They see "Seth Parker and his Jonesport Neighbors" performed with no "props" save a fireplace, chairs and the melodeon. Of plot the entertainment has little; to get the actors off stage for intermission...