Word: sheepskin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Lawyer Solovei, "I guarantee the reversal of this conviction. If I don't, I'll tear my sheepskin into a million pieces and never practice again and you can print that!" Fred Hull. 53, who had made the greatest gamble a man can make -and lost-said nothing. He is scheduled to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing the week of Sept...
Tabor, a science instructor at Episcopal Academy who, wearing a skating cap and sheepskin coat, "shoots" on fair nights from 7 o'clock to n. Dr. I. M. Levitt of Franklin Institute comes out every day to make solar observations on the Cook spectrohelioscope. These data are sent to the Paris Observatory which collects solar reports from all over the world for the International Astronomical Union. Gustavus Wynne Cook is an extremely able and versatile craftsman. In his roomy machine shop on the third floor of "Roslyn House," he made a three-inch star transit of a new type...
Most mediseval is the letter of the University of Bologna engrossed on heavy sheepskin, with the printing surrounded by brilliant hand drawn illuminution predominantly blue and red, with gold interlining...
...explanation of this is not so difficult as it might seem for at the time the diploma was granted to him Locke was president of the College and so naturally did not sign his own sheepskin. The Follows and the Treasurer were the only signatories...
...mercy on the wife Zenobia, probably because, as Miss Wharton originally wrote it. the part would not have fitted the compassionate stage manner of Pauline Lord. This reorientation of Zenobia required a general softening up of the other characters. Actor Massey, a Canadian who knows how to wear a sheepskin coat as if he realized its usefulness, thus loses some of his customary forceful directness. Ruth Gordon, a noted giggler, makes the stage Mattie sillier than Edith Wharton intended...