Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Things come to a head when Judge Priest, temporarily disbanded, helps defend a stranger on trial for the knifing of one Elisworth Brown, local dude and "jelly-bean" par excellence. The jury seems ready to admit that Master Brown richly deserves his portion, but nevertheless is prone to regard the unsociable defendant, who probably did not fight for the Stars and Bars, with a jaundiced eye. Judge Priest turns the tables in masterful fashion. While the strains of "Dixie" are wafted into the hushed courtroom, the parson, (Henry B. Walthall) comes forward as character witness on behalf of the defendant...
...position of sparring master at the gymnasium was filled by appointing E. J. Ferris, the well known teacher of the manly art, to take the place made vacant by J. E. Mellen, who left to take charge of a gymnasium in Rochester...
...after the War feel that they have been bilked of their due. The Kingdom that they thought they were joining, that of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, quickly became Jugoslavia, in which only the voice of Serbia could be heard. Bosnians, Herzegovinians, Slovenes found Serbia a far more brutal master than Austria-Hungary. Any effort to state national aspirations in public brought instant oppression, exile, often torture and assassination. From Serbia's point of view this policy worked for all the provinces but one. The Croats were not to be downed. They fought back, inside Jugoslavia...
University: "Handy Andy"--Will Rogers in a very amusing comedy in his particular homespun manner. Some hilariously funny scenes at the New Orleans Mardi Gras. "The Defense Rests"--all about a master criminal lawyer who wins every case he handles and ends up in the loving arms of his blonde secretary. On Sunday the change of program brings the very excellent "One Night of Love" with the captivating Grace Moore. Also the screen adaptation of Bruce Lockhart's exciting story of his experiences as British consul in Moscow in 1917 and 1918, "British Agent...
...conference is an annual occasion, and was held last year at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where Harvard was represented by President Conant, Dean Hanford, and James Phinney Baxter III, associate professor of History, and Master of Adams House...