Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Chapman was finally sentenced to hang, the editorial pages wound up the affair with: "Served him right," "Thus always with malefactors," "Now will you be good," "A splendid example of American justice," and similar sentiments reminiscent of the great days of Harry K. Thaw, Nicky Arnstein and "Lefty Louie...
Perhaps when the spring thaw comes, the Sunday rotogravure section will show the blithesome Columbia crew frolicking about the float like male Pavlowa's, while leading the aesthetic dare a Follies girl in front-page-cover-in Judge costume beckons...
...largest theological workshop in the U. S., famed for recondite scholarship and "heretics," has been seeking an endowment of four millions. Lately, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, noted Unionite, returned from a swing around the country bearing with him a goodly portion of the sum, including the munificence of Benjamin Thaw of Pittsburgh. A fortnight ago, Mrs. Louise Carnegie, widow of historic Andrew, added $100,000 to the total...
...Mary Copley Thaw Fellowship for work in the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology has been awarded to H. L. Shapiro '23, of Dorchester, who last year held a Bishop Museum fellowship at Yale for field work and study in the South Seas. He will now return to the University to continue his studies...
...record). But scores of lawyers to one judge have made enduring public reputations out of participating in one famous case. Almost everybody associates the names of William Travers Jerome, as prosecutor, and those of Delphin M. Delmar and Martin W. Littleton, as counsel for the defense, with the several Thaw trials. Hundreds of people today can tell you that James W. Osborne prosecuted (1900) and John G. Milburn and George Gordon Battle defended Molineux. But even lawyers have to turn to the files of old newspapers to find out the names of the judges who presided at these famed trials...