Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment's notice to rush back to his Capital. At Aix the knitting needles of Mrs. Baldwin clicked confidently. Providence, Lucy Baldwin devoutly believes, guides Stanley Baldwin and the Empire. How nice it would be, and how simple, if when the League meets on Sept. 4, a few score British war boats rocking gently in the Mediterranean should be found to have put Benito Mussolini in a new and better frame of mind. Every time the Egyptian Government gets uppity they are easily calmed by a British naval or military demonstration. Lucy Baldwin has observed, and to her mind...
...high school seniors. He was an officer of the student council and president of his class for one year. He was editor-in-chief of the school annual, was a leader in dramatics and debating, and was an officer of several student clubs. This year he had the highest score in a State of Ohio civil service examination in competition with both high school and college students. He has been a member of the track, basketball and football teams...
...hell-raisers and do no good to anybody," said Charleston police. At Blaney some 15 veterans were on the chain gang. Kingstree citizens were worried by the campers' attentions to their "brass ankle women"?mongrel white-Negro-Indian wenches who hang about the Negro settlements. At Kingstree a score of drunken campers had just wrecked the entire second floor of the town jail. Women & children were staying off the streets to avoid the rest. More nuisance than menace, however, the veterans were so broken-spirited that Kingstree's two-man police force could handle any number of them with...
When the League Council finally met to rubber stamp this formula, Ethiopia's Professor Jeze made his only score for the week. He glared at President Litvinoff and hissed: "You offer us the choice between suicide and assassination. Well, we prefer assassination...
...droning battle between the Presbyterian Church and the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions, the score last week stood 1-to-1. The Church had won the first round by getting peppery Dr. J. Gresham Machen suspended (TIME, April 8 et ante). Round No. 2 involved Dr. James Oliver Buswell Jr., member of the Chicago Presbytery, president of Wheaton College, who was haled before a judicial commission for failing to resign from the Independent Board. Last week, upon the commission's recommendation, the Chicago Presbytery dismissed the charge against Dr. Buswell because, according to Presbyterian law the indictment against...