Word: sixteener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Schoolgirl of Sixteen." The affair of Miss Savidge arose when she was acquitted of a charge of improper conduct in Hyde Park with Sir Leo Chiozza Money, onetime Parliamentary Secretary to David Lloyd George. The two constables who made the false arrest have been fined ?10 ($48), stand today in danger of prosecution for perjury, and would be aided in proving themselves honest men by statements subsequently taken down from Miss Savidge at Scotland Yard. She was hustled there by constables after her acquittal, and examined amid circumstances smacking of the third degree...
...Miss Savidge testified before the Extraordinary Tribunal, appraising reporters scribbled: "pretty . . . dressed in black with canary colored ribbons at her throat . . . light brown hair . . . pink-and-white complexion . . . looked like a schoolgirl of sixteen . . . slight cockney accent . . . provoked laughter with some of her naive replies, but she herself did not laugh . . . thanked the usher when she handed her a glass of water and smelling salts ... sat playing with the stopper as counsel continued their questions...
...Sixteen hundred copies were printed, but 1000 have been set aside for the members of 1932, each of whom will be sent a copy by the College this summer free of charge. The other 600 copies give evidence of being too few to meet the great demand. The remaining booklets go on sale today at Amee's, the Harvard Cooperative Society, Phillips's Book Store, Felix's and the Crimson Building. The price...
...without breaking any records. Only two men scored double firsts, Ray Barbuti (Syracuse) in the 220 and 440, and Eric Krenz (Stanford) in the discus and shot put. Illinois, regular winner in the middle west, did what was expected at Evanston, Ill., and by winning eleven points out of sixteen kept the track and field championship of the Big Ten. George Simpson (Ohio State) won two events, the 100 and the 220-yard dash. Lately Cambridge has been beating Oxford at most sports. There are generally some American Rhodes scholars on the Oxford teams. Last week Cambridge stuck to routine...
...Sixteen pieces of Gothic tapestry, loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by their owners, were last week hung for the public to look upon until the middle of September. Of the 16, all fabulously costly and all curiously beautiful, six were the most beautiful and the most costly. These were the pieces in the series called The Hunt of The Unicorn, owned by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Their worth was greater than $1,100,000; millefleurs tapestries, their backgrounds were filled with flowers...