Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indignation of thousands of listeners who gasped when two judges gave the world's heavyweight crown to Sharkey after 58 seconds' deliberation is supported by the considered judgment of the leading sporting experts. Caren's tabulation indicates that Schmeling totalled 262 blows landed as against his opponent's 256; for the great part of the fight Sharkey was retreating. His admission that the ruling could be given to either man means that the most Sharkey deserved was a draw. Although the majority of lesser known Boston sports writers conclude that the Czeckoslovak gob was the rightful victor, such judges...
...Ireland's Holy Hill he spent 40 days, heckled by demons in the form of hideous birds of prey which he finally scattered by ringing his bell. Then, like Jacob, he wrestled with a visiting angel, extracting five concessions. The last one St. Patrick judged the nicest: on Judgment Day he would be deputized to judge the whole Irish race. A large court he will need; several years ago it was calculated there were 100 million persons of Irish blood in the world. St. Patrick died March 17, 493, in Saul, County Down and his corpse was wrapped...
...away from that obvious public duty. In the case of Sheriff Farley,* Judge Seabury asked the Legislative Committee to present the evidence to the Governor. The Committee refused. Judge Seabury sent it himself; I acted. If the evidence in any case now before the Legislative Committee, in their judgment or that of their counsel, warrants, it is time for the Legislative Committee and their counsel to stop talking and do something. It is not the time for political sniping or buck-passing...
...should turn up but Garry Clune, Leda's girlhood love. Clune has made a fortune, is married, but far from settled down. The memory of Leda has tormented him for years. He invites her and Blount out to his Virginia estate, and Leda, against her better judgment, but for the sake of Blount's possible advantage, accepts. Advantages soon follow. De Long, a friend of dune's, takes an interest in Blount's glass works, an interest in Blount's wife. He introduces her to Judith Webster. Washington's star socialite, whose husband...
...Frederick, Md., at a sheriff's sale to satisfy a rent judgment against her, Mrs. Thomas Hargrave bid 5? for each lot of her household possessions and her automobile. For her carpet she bid 2?. Neighbors refrained from bidding. The sheriff realized...