Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dolly Sisters (2) set the pace of fortune by announcing that they had won a total of $820,000 during the present season of baccarat at Cannes, French Riviera. During the week King Christian X of Denmark, now at Cannes, deemed it worth, his royal while to stand for half an hour near Miss Rosie Dolly while she plunged at baccarat and won 4,000,000 francs ($160,000) in a single afternoon. Friends of the Dollys could only beam and recall a few of the piquant events which have transpired since they were born simultaneously, 35 years...
...first defeat of the season for the Crimson poloists. With one defeat and three victories to their credit they stand tied with the Optimists, with whom the play off for the Indoor Polo League Championship will take place...
Since a Dartmouth undergraduate refused to become a member of the Phi Beta Kappa on the ground that college grades were no criterion of real ability, there has been revealed evidence from two sources that his stand is not justified by the facts. President Lowell, in his speech at Yale last week, stated that he had found that the graduates making the greatest successes in after life had done well in college studies while the prevalent opinion that extra-curriculum activities were more valuable as a preparation for later life has no basis for its claims. President Lowell has carried...
...people live in the farming community of Reidsville, N. C. Smith T. Petty was a good deal like the rest of the men in the village, except that he sometimes got conspicuously drunk and beat his wife; on such occasions, his children, Alma, Woodrow Wilson, Smith, and Thelma, would stand in a corner, too scared to look. About a year ago, Smith T. Petty disappeared; after a decent interval, Mrs. Petty died. Last May, a Baptist revival preacher, the Rev. Thomas F. Pardue, gave a sermon in Reidsville on the subject of repentance. After his sermon, Alma Petty, sweet & pretty...
When the jury went out, the judge, not expecting a quick decision, left the court. Three hours later, he was fetched from a nearby village and driven back to the courtroom. The jury had reached a conclusion. Whether because they believed the stories the witnesses had told on the stand, whether they disliked the idea of convicting the winner of a beauty contest, or whether, and this was the most likely reason, they felt an instinctive reluctance to accept as mundane evidence a secret that had been intended for the ears only of God, they announced that Mrs. Alma Petty...