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...related Keenan) had at first wanted to conduct the trial on the narrow grounds that Japan had violated the rules of civilized warfare, while the U.S. and Canada clung to the Nürnberg view that aggressive war was itself a crime. Pragmatic ex-Gangbuster Keenan somewhat naively quoted Webster's New International Dictionary, second edition, unabridged, 1943, in an effort to establish a legal definition of aggressive...
...just an economist-a confessed "illiterate in the arts." But for the past five years Lewis Webster Jones had presided effectively over Vermont's arty, progressive Bennington College, whose 300-odd girls favor sloppy blue jeans and custom-tailored curricula, and excel in the modern dance...
Farce--"a light dramatic composition of satirical or humorous cast," according to Webster. The Plymouth Theater's latest offering, soon to move on to Broadway, meets the letter of the definition, but it will never quite rank as a leading example of what can be a well-developed and highly amusing theater...
...come. Last week little disturbed the characteristic habits of the legislator: the slow consideration of a morning newspaper during speeches, the mid-aisle conference, the group retreat to the cloakroom. And it was a wonderful time to watch him rise unabashed amid his fellows and gesture like Daniel Webster when introducing an insignificant bill...
...Capitol of Ohio" (it's right across High Street from the real Capitol building), also crusty with political legend. Here William Henry Harrison made his headquarters in the "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" campaign of 1840; William McKinley lived there as governor. Other guests: Charles Dickens, Jenny Lind, Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley. The present structure, fourth on the same site, was built in 1923, has 700 rooms. It does an annual business of more than $2,000,000-which is just what Connie Hilton paid...