Word: schoor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bedford Hills, N. Y., one blazing summer day, Emil Schoor fished a handsome little pickerel from Cross River Reservoir. When a game warden stretched his tape along its belly four hours later the fish measured n inches, just one inch under the legal limit. Stoutly Emil Schoor contended that his prize, when caught, was a full foot long, that the sun must have shrunk it. Police put the pickerel...
...weeks later, just before the case came to trial, Schoor decided to pay a $12.50 fine. Having summoned the jury, however, the presiding justice of the peace let the prosecution call its witnesses. From the New York Aquarium came an ichthyologist to testify that no pickerel in his experience had ever shrunk more than a quarter of an inch. Indignantly Emil Schoor changed his mind about dropping the case, asked for a change of venue. The court refused the petition, clapped the defendant in jail. Released on bail, Schoor went to the State Supreme Court, got his change of venue...
...Schoor's experts stretched the maximum pickerel shrinkage to three-quarters of an inch. The jury was out two hours. Said the foreman: "Guilty." The judge: "$50." Emil Schoor threatened to appeal...
...into the Royal Box-Princess Mary and her cousins Princess Helena Victoria and Princess Marie Louise.* Conductor Bruno Walter arose and swept together the first vigorous strains of the Meistersinger overture. Then were displayed the tight-toned "Walther" of Tenor Rudolf Laubenthal; the homely, bourgeois "Sachs" of Baritone Friedrich Schoor; the heavy, smoothly sung "Eva" of Lotte Lehmann, important soprano of the Vienna Staatsoper. London's opera, although on the upgrade so far as quality is concerned, is still of shorter duration than that of most capital cities. This year its ten-week season will be distinguished...