Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...killed in a drunken brawl. Genevote is to agree to marry Granger on condition of being allowed to go through the marriage ceremony with a supposed corpse first, and at the proper time Charlot is to resuscitate. Paquier has overheard the scheme, and the plan fails. As a last resort Corbineli makes the play he was ordered to prepare, a comedy in which Granger is induced to sign a supposedly sham contract between Charlot and Genevote, which is eventually proved to be genuine. The play ends with the happiness of the lovers, Charlot and Genevote, and the discomfiture...
...results were those obtained by the committee on arbitration. Before the Hague treaty was signed there was no real code of International law; so that this treaty has been aptly called the "Magna Charta of International Law." By it, arbitration is not compulsory, but every nation is urged to resort to it. Four judges are to be selected from each nation, from whom each of the contending parties will select two and these judges will select a fifth. The nations must agree to abide by the decision of the board of arbitration...
...Common Room" is to furnish a place where the occupants of Divinity Hall may gather for social purposes. The rooms are furnished with taste and several paintings will soon be placed upon the walls. A large number of newspapers and periodicals will also aid in making this a popular resort for the divinity students...
...whatever the conflicting feeling outside, perfect harmony within the Faculty. Secondly it is their opinion that although the moral effect of the possibility of such a punishment as possing has thus far justified its adoption, it is so extreme a punishment that in future the tendency might be to resort to it so seldom that much of its moral effectiveness might be lost. Finally, nearly all agree that the new method promises well...
...Celebrity" by Winston Churchill (MacMillan and Co.) may be briefiy described as one of those books which it is hard to lay down until finished. It describes the adventures of a young American author, the Celebrity, who disguised under an incognito, visits a summer resort by the great lakes, in quest of a very charming young woman whom he wishes to marry. Meanwhile the man whose name he has assumed, takes the opportunity to decamp with various embezzled monies. The Celebrity accordingly falls into some trouble, the police being in hot pursuit and finally escapes to Canada. Intentionally or otherwise...