Word: inns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first scene represents a typical street in Venice during its gay carnival time. On one side of the stage is the stately house of a rich Bolognese doctor, with an arched doorway, and a broad balcony looking down upon the stage. Across the way is the entrance to an inn, the "Aquila D'Ors". Between the two buildings are steps and an embankment, which suggest the presence of a canal, and above which may be seen a deep expanse of sunny Venetian...
...squash tournament last night a record total of 97 men had signed up as compared to 52 last year. The drawings for the tournament will be made today and the preliminary rounds will begin on Monday, November 5.. All the members of the University team and the Lincoln Inn the team of the Law School have signed up, including W. P. Dixon '25, captain of the University team, and Channing Wakefield 3L., number one Law School player. W. D. Macpherson Sp., squash champion of Cambridge University, England, and G. D. Debevoise '26, winner of the Freshman tournament last year...
Taking advantage of Friday's holiday, Columbus Day, the Business School Club plans an outing to Pemberton Inn for all its members and alumni. The men will meet at Rowe's wharf at 10 o'clock in the morning. Tickets...
...Herbert Henry Asquith is Britain's Scholar-Statesman. His early schooling was done in London. In 1871 he became a classical scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, and subsequently got a " first " in Litterae Humaniores (1874). After that he went in for the Law, joined Lincoln's Inn in 1876 and "took silk " in 1890. His political career started four years earlier. In 1886 he became M. P. for East Fife, a constituency he represented continuously until the general election of 1918, when he was defeated. For two years Mr. Asquith remained out of the House and then came back...
...having supported Ulster he somewhat callously deserted the Unionist cause after the War and was one of the prime movers in effecting the present settlement of the vexatious Irish question. For this act he has been both reviled and admired. Lord Birkenhead's legal career started at Gray's Inn, of which legal establishment he is now a Bencher. He became a King's Counsellor, or to use legal phraseology, he took silk, in 1908. In 1915 he became Solicitor General and in the same year was appointed Attorney General, a post which he held until 1919, when...