Word: lawson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colonial life had a lighter side, even when it was turned to the Indians. One John Lawson records how the Indians bought their liquor-by the mouthful. "And for this purpose the buyer always makes choice of his man, which is one that has the greatest mouth, whom he brings to the market with a bowl" to spit the liquor in. "The seller looks narrowly to the man's mouth that measures it, and if he happens to swallow any down . . . the merchant . . . does not scruple to knock the fellow down . . . Thereupon the buyer finds another mouthpiece...
...been losing stroke after stroke on the greens. "I'm puttin' as though my doggone arms wuz broke," moaned Sam. As the incoming scores went up on the huge scoreboards, other topflighters began to slip: Jimmy Demaret (149 for the first 36 holes), Al Brosch (151), Lawson Little (153). But iron-nerved Ben Hogan improved his first-round 72 with a one-under...
People get "this lord & lady business" all mixed up, complained Baron Lawson of Beamish, 68, who was a coal miner at twelve and labor M.P. for 30 years before he was raised to the peerage last February. "People come along to me and say, 'Well, you see, my lord'; then they get to, 'It's this way, Mr. Lawson'; then it's, 'Tell me, John'; and in the end it's, 'See here, Jack...
George G. Wilson '52, cousin of former president Leonard V. Wilson '49, was elected to the top Skiing Club office last night. Other new executives are James A. Lawson '52, treasurer, and Fridtjot Lorentzen '53 from Oslo, Norway, secretary...
While the court's action dealt only with Writers Dalton Trumbo and John Howard Lawson, it was equally decisive for the eight other members of the Hollywood ten indicted for the same offense. They had signed stipulations waiving jury trials and agreeing to be bound by the law as decided in the Trumbo-Lawson cases. Barring some unexpected legal reversal, all ten faced jail...