Word: madison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Group meetings will be held twice each week in the Church House of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church preceded by a swim and a luncheon. Opportunity will be afforded to meet and listen to some of the foremost social and religious leaders in America...
Nearly 18 years have rolled by since a certain June night in 1906 when Harry K. Thaw slew Stanford White, famed architect of his time, at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. In the months that followed, Thaw fought hard to escape the electric chair. His lawyers saved him by proving him insane and the Thaw fortune was said to have been diminished by a good round million dollars. In Philadelphia, during the past week, Harry Thaw began a new and expensive fight-a fight to be proven sane and so regain liberty...
...annual elections of the Law Review, published by the University Law School, resulted as follows: President, Robert Guthrie Page 2L of Madison, Wis.: treasurer, Eli Whitney Debevoise 2L of Summit, N. J.; chief editor, Arthur Eugene Sutherland 2L of Rochester, N. Y.; note editor, Thomas Gardiner Corcoran 2L of Pawtucket, R. I.; book-review editor, Sydney Fairbanks '17, 2L, of Cambridge...
...Delaney, French-Canadian pugilist now of Bridgeport, Conn., represented Experience. Paul Berlenbach, German-American, who had recently risen to sensational fame by the knock-out of his last ten opponents, typified Strength. Berlenbach's friends offered cash at 5 to 2 on the meeting of the two in Madison Square Garden. Tex Rickard in his counting house counted his receipts. The fame of Berlenbach had sold every reserved seat two days before the fight. On the newsstands, Berlenbach's picture covered the front page of The Muscle Builder, a "McFadden publication." Inside the cover Berlenbach told...
...winning pair consisted of Maurice Brocco "the little wop," and Marcel Buysse, native Belgian. For six days the architectural monstrosity of Madison Square resounded with the cry "Br-r-occ-o-o!" Idlers and sportsmen of a type would step in to see the race at odd intervals, would cry "Br-r-occ-o-o!" and depart...