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...cannot chew is that of a family waiting for an old lady to die and leave them her $200,000. They wait 15 years while the old ogress, who never appears on the stage, clings to life in her room upstairs, taps signals on a steam pipe to summon the heirs & heiresses for obsequious ministrations, keeps them on tenterhooks by changing her will every so often. The grandson (Paul Guilfoyle) and his fiancee (Linda Watkins) are frustrated when the matriarch will not let him go to medical school; the granddaughter, prevented from marrying her garageman, sneaks off for weekends with...
...Negroes have served on grand and petty juries in Virginia since early reconstruction days when a Buckingham County sheriff was fined for refusing to summon negroes on juries. In practice, however, the State-wide selection of Negroes is the exception, not the rule...
...college in America, that aged seat of learning is justified in stroking its long grey beard, settling back in its easy chair, looking out over the City of Boston, and exasperating moderns by its antique idiosyncrasies, such as, for example, the ringing of the seven o'clock bell to summon bleary-eyed undergraduates to a compulsory chapel that has been dead these fifty years...
...restless inhabitants of Reunion or West turn over in their beds these drear days, rudely called from the arms of Morpheus by the peal of Old Nassau, which seems even yet in the still, small hours of the morning to summon men to a ghostly service, they may innocently consider to themselves the sublime beauty and glorious value of ancient traditions. --The Princetonian...
...Washington, But the miners si ill stayed out and the President's next move was to summon a committee of captive mineowners to the White House. To U. S. Steel's Myron C. Taylor, Bethlehem's Eugene G. Grace, National's Ernest T. Weir and Jones & Laughlin's George Laughlin Jr. was presented an eight-point program, written in the President's own hand and scrutinized by General Johnson, which provided for a meeting between captive operators and union representatives. "Failing in agreement on any point . . . the President will pass on the questions involved...