Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rule has been made as a means of insurance against Boston public opinion or the sensationalism of that city's press, the self-righteous authorities responsible for it have sadly missed the boat. The most embarrassing of Harvard scandals in recent years, the Dunster House affair of last autumn and the subsequent tragedy at Winthrop, occurred when the rooms were teeming with numerous guests of both sexes...
...University at whose Tercentenary the keynote was a loud protestation of tolerance, liberalism, and fair play. Upon President Conant's return from England the issue must be put up to him frankly and squarely. Whatever lapses of virtue take place at Harvard can never be curtailed by a rule which does not prohibit but merely shouts out the terms: "DOUBLE OR NOTHING...
...Yale's Rule...
...umbrella which Mr. Roosevelt smilingly declined. Moment later birdlike Jerome Davis Greene, member of the Harvard Corporation and Director of arrangements for the Tercentenary, bustled up anxiously with a gold-headed umbrella. The President again declined, turned to watch Rome's Professor Corrado Gini break a well-publicized rule of the day by pulling a small camera from under his robe, proceeding to snapshoot the other celebrities...
...Lily Kenny, 33, claims to be the mother of 14 (seven living), of whom twelve were born within Toronto's city limits. City records show only ten registered within the decade. Rats killed one Kenny child. If the contest judges rule out her two unrecorded infants, Mrs. Kenny still has a good chance to break the tie and pocket Bachelor Millar's $500,000 by delivering the child she is now carrying before All Souls...