Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pike returns with the verdict that Saavedra does suppress the press, that he does incarcerate his political disputants, that, in short, he is a tyrant; but also that none of these things is regarded as indecent in Bolivia, and that most of his victims await, without rancor, their opportunity to return to Bolivia to do unto Senor Saavedra as he did unto them...
There is some doubt as to the verdict which the Nashville murderess is to receive, but if the general opinion of the movie public were consulted, the act might well be considered "justifiable homicide". Men have been killed upon much less provocation in this country before. And were the lady to be let off scot-free and undoubted interest would be added at all performances in the future. Heretofore most movie-murders have been perpetrated on the screen, and the audience has contented itself with a passively vicarious thrill. Recently, even, melodrama has slopped over on to the stage producing...
...Harvard football team is at last beginning to find itself. That was the verdict at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon after a long scrimmage with the scrubs in which Coach Fisher's men displayed more power than at any time this season. Although still stiff and bruised from last Saturday's encounter with Dartmouth, the University showed a driving attack in puncturing the second team line for two touchdowns which make the prospects for the future far less gloomy than they appeared late Saturday afternoon...
...Pani's] libelous statement has the object of covering incompetence to solve the financial problem which is now in his charge. Later next week with calmness I will demonstrate to the entire nation the inconsistency of the charges made on financial grounds, and I am waiting calmly the verdict of the nation after they hear my answer, point by point, to the report of Alberto Pani. . . . These and other statements that will be startling I will make known to the nation-that is, if the hidden hand, following the same road as with Francisco Villa, does not take...
...tablet to be dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt records that here "Harvard's greatest alumnus" spent "four formative and fruitful years," a verdict in which all but a few will concur. But the voice of the cynic and the iconoclast will make itself heard, inquiring whether after all Roosevelt's connection with the University, or ours for that matter, has really been formative...