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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The other speakers who took part in last night's audition, with their orations, were: D. M. Sullivan '33. "The Forsaken Merman" by Matthew Arnold; P. H. Cohen '32, the death of Socrates from Plato's "Phaedo," translated by Benjamin Jowett; T. I. Moran '32, speech before the American Bar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOEWENSTEIN AND SEDGWICK WINNERS IN SPEAKING TEST | 3/31/1932 | See Source »

Holmes at 91

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 28, 1932 | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

Beside my desk on the wall there has hung since last March a clipping from TIME quoting Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes as saying upon the occasion of his 90th birthday: "Death plucks my ear and says 'Live-I am coming!' " Tonight's newspapers give an all too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 28, 1932 | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

Mr. Justice Holmes, venerable in retirement, is still sharp and mellow of mind. He has lately been less troubled by the lumbago which was an immediate cause of his leaving the High Bench. Leaving his motor to call on his former colleagues or to borrow or return books from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 28, 1932 | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

Subsequent investigation yields nothing to Inspector Thumm and Attorney Bruno. In despair they turn to Drury Lane, a retired actor who had helped them on a criminal case before. Actor Lane is an esthetic Sherlock Holmes who quotes Shakespeare, names his servants after Shakespearean characters, lives in an Elizabethan village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder, Cubed | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

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