Word: watsonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coveted a package of letters in her possession. But the swindlers were not to prevail, for soon an amazingly lean, dignified, taciturn gentleman appeared to help the girl. He was Sherlock Holmes, detective. A fantastic seer, he had but to scan the unevenlv shaven cheeks of his friend Dr. Watson to tell him that he had altered the position of his dressing table. Scarcely had he known one lady for five minutes when he announced in his croaking voice that she was obviously fond of Chopin. What criminal could have hoped to elude such a prodigy of penetration, such...
...varied program has been planned for the five sections of the Clubs: J. S. B. Archer '30, tenor soloist, will present some selections; another feature of the specialties will be the Hawaiian Trio, composed of Eustis Dearborn '32, R. S. Watson '32, and R. B. Harrison '32. DeWitt Stetten, Jr. '30, magician, will mystify his audience with legerdemain...
Class A: Harvard University defeated Harvard Club, 3 to 2. Ogden Phipps '31, defeated Jansen (H.C.), 15-12, 9-15, 15-10, 15-11: A. C. Ingraham '31, defeated Thatcher (H. C.), 15-12, 9-15, 15-9, 15-11: Watson (H. C.), defeated C. D. G. Breckenridge '31, 15-12, 15-12, 15-11; Jackson (H. C.) defeated N. F. Glidden, Jr. '31, 11-15, 15-10, 15-10, 15-12; A. W. Patterson '32, defeated Halstead...
...Kean of New Jersey, McCulloch of Ohio, Patterson of Missouri, Townsend of Delaware, Walcott of Connecticut. From the Old Guard they had recruited Deneen of Illinois, Fess of Ohio, Goff of West Virginia, McNary of Oregon, Oddie of Nevada et al. There was even talk of unhorsing Old Guardsman Watson as Republican Leader and putting Senator McNary into his place...
Indianapolis. The Republican party, hard-ridden by the Ku Klux Klan, stumbled and fell in defeat as for the first time in 16 years the city chose a Democratic mayor, Reginald Sullivan. In similar disrepute was the Klan-Republican alliance in many another Indiana municipality, including Senator James Eli Watson's own Rushville where Republicans were turned out, Democrats turned into office...