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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official historian of the celebration when speaking of the anniversary always refers to it as the tur-sen-te-na-ri, with the accent on the "te," the "e" being pronounced as in "event." It's all a question of penults and ante-penults, and according to the latest Webster's the former is correct as to the accent, the latter as to the pronunciation...
...leisurely days when the U. S. Supreme Court was housed in the Capitol basement and fashionable ladies flocked to it every afternoon to listen and admire, legalites like Henry Clay and Daniel Webster got off some of their finest flights of eloquence at its bar. Nowadays, the nine hard-pressed old men who sit on the Supreme bench have no time to listen to oratory, demand facts. Last week Forney Johnston, 56. a New Deal-hating Birmingham attorney, known for his acid courtroom flings, got a lesson which was enough to send every prospective Supreme Court pleader in the land...
...Gallagher, Carrell F. Getchell, Bert Haines Howard Hart '38, Clark Hodder '25, Dr. Ralph J. Joplin, Harold Johnson '04, Victor O. Jones, Austen Lake, Henry Lamar, Arthur Lane, '27, Myles Lane, Frank O. Lunden, James F. McRac, John McDonald, Dr. Frank W. Marrin '10. Jaakko Mikkola. Fred Mirchell, Webster J. Morse, Robert R. Muir, Henry Myerson...
After this emotional catharsis, the mayors, headed by their president, Daniel Webster Hoan, for 19 years Socialist mayor of Milwaukee, went to the White House where President Roosevelt told them...
First they turned to Webster, who defined "gentle" as "archaie" and a gentleman as a "maggot." After deciding, then, that the Harvard man is an archaic maggot, it is not difficult to solve other features of the same subject, such as the Harvard indifference and the Harvard accent...