Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HOUNDS OP SPRING?Sylvia Thompson?Little, Brown ($2). The bird's-eye view of Miss Thompson's novel is promising. A girl's true love goes to war and is reported dead. Desolate and a bit selfish, she marries with half a heart. Then the grave?which was a living one, a prison camp?gives up its dead. She finds it in her to leave husband and child, to conclude, on a veranda in Fiesole, that she was wise to relight her candle after fate had snuffed it. The story is straightforwardly written out, with honest British cliches of word...
...President formally approved a sentence of death imposed by a court martial on Lieutenant John S. Thompson, U. S. A. The Lieutenant had pleaded guilty to the murder of a young woman in the Philippines. The father, a minister on Long Island, asked the President to grant clemency on the ground that his son was insane. But the President confirmed the sentence. It is believed to be the first death sentence ever imposed by a U. S. court martial in peacetime...
Carlton, the blond 1929 flash, put the first-year skaters in the lead against Newton, when he found the net before the end of the first session after taking a pass from Whiting. The disc failed to clear the ice but slipped through the guard of Thompson, Newton cage guardian. Holbrook, the brilliant leader of the schoolboys, who was forced out of the game for a few minutes in the initial period with a cut on the hand, contributed several long dashes and narrowly missed two hard drives at the Crimson cage...
...High 0. Goals--Carlton, Putnam, Tudor. Referee--Mooney. Time--three 15-minute periods. HARVARD 1929 NEWTON HIGH Tudor (Capt.), Carlton l.w. r.w. Stubbs, Whitmore Putnam, Winston c. c. Holbrook (Capt.) Crosby, Cunningham r.w. l.w. Spain, Powers Stanley, Whiting l.d. r.d. Prator Bigelow, Covell r.d. l.d. Andres Jackson g. g. Thompson...
...Representative John J. Kindred of New York, an alienist, called on the President to urge him to commute the death sentence of Lieutenant John S. Thompson convicted by court martial of murdering his fiancée, Miss Audrey Burleigh, in the Philippines. The father of the convicted man, a Long Island clergyman, contends that his son is insane and that he inherited insanity from both sides of the family. Representative Kindred declared that the Army medical examinations of the murderer show he is abnormal. The President took the case under consideration...