Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late as 1921, Hon. Charles E. Hughes, also onetime president of the A.B.A., appeared in the U. S. Supreme Court in behalf of a client convicted in the Federal courts of Michigan. Hon. Elihu Root, also a former president of the A.B.A. in his youth, did not hesitate to appear in the defense of criminal cases, when he felt it necessary...
...given Wednesday evenings from 8:30 to 9 E. S. T. starting Oct. 4, will have orchestra music led by Don Voorhees, three baritone solos by Conrad Thibault, three violin solos by Spalding and two health-talks to mothers in which Constipation will be emphasized as the root of all evil. Violinist Spalding will start the series with "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen." Almost as striking as the Spalding-Castoria conjunction will be the crooning of Helen Morgan for Bi-So-Dol, stomach sweetener, at 2 p. m. Sundays. Tenor John McCormack will sing lush Irish ballads...
Princeton University opened its 187th year with a new president, Dr. Harold Willis Dodds. English Professor Robert Kilburn Root is dean of the faculty succeeding Mathematician Luther Pfahler Eisenhart, now dean of the Graduate School. Princeton men noted three new buildings rising not far from their chapel. Anonymously donated, they will house the famed Westminister Choir School, founded seven years ago by Dr. John Finley Williamson and largely supported by Mrs. Harold Ellstner Talbott of Dayton, Ohio...
...indignation, but he vented it so resoundingly as to rid New York of a few petty pillagers of the till and to sweep himself into the governor's chair. During the war days, when he was one moment writing articles and the next going off to sulk because Mr. Root would not let him lead a picturesque cavalry squadron to suicide in France, his politics was mere moral indignity. But whenever he abandoned a cause, he washed his hands of it quietly, and never failed to preserve the waters of its ablution, for which sometimes, as in the case...
...Chicago last week a convention of police chiefs heard an editor tell them what they love to hear: that the yellow press is at the root of all their troubles...