Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never, I believe, been that of the Trustees and the present pronouncement is meant merely to make this clear. The Trustees have, in fact, often been ready to allow a Scholar who left at the end of two years to take the rest of his scholarship at some later date if he chose to return to Oxford. The scholars do not have to "sign articles" to remain any given time, or even to do any given work. When the note to Dean Nichols reads "tenable specifically for three years", it means, I presume, that the appointment is for that time...
...Show for the current Richard Barthelmess movie production. Craig has as his lawyers Paul N. Turner, who is the most prominent attorney in America to handle cases for authors and actors. Turner is bringing a combined suit in Craig's name against Warner Bros. Company and Irving Berlin, who later copyrighted the song illegally, and a separate damage suit against Silvers. The suit against Silvers will be the more serve because he did the actual copying and then turned the tune over to Warner Bros...
...orderly saluted. General de la Vega turned on his heel and left for a rapid tour of inspection of the defences of Juarez. Nearly an hour later he returned to his office, prepared to plunge at once into the mass of papers accumulated on his desk. The large red bomb was still there, still ticking...
...front page of all U. S. papers. Private Finezee was a member of a cavalry patrol of the famed 10th U. S. Cavalry, which discovered a hidden cache of hand grenades that the rebels were attempting to smuggle across the border into Mexico. The rebels appearing a few minutes later to claim their bombs, a brush ensued, in the course of which Private Finezee received a bullet in the chest. Painfully, but not seriously wounded, he law in an army hospital while papers headlined U. S. TROOPS FIRE ON MEXICANS...
...Rosalinda Morini, 26, coloratura soprano of Freehold, N. J. Last February Mr. Kahn was quoted in Miss Morini's advertisement in The Musical Courier as saying that she had "one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard." Also quoted were the words: "Metropolitan Grand Opera Co." Later Mr. Kahn denied making or authorizing any such statement and said the use of the Metropolitan's name was "evidently intended to exploit for Miss Morini's benefit the name of an organization with which she has no connection whatever...