Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From more than one quarter, the comment was made that there was no better Republican campaigner on the stump than Charles E. Hughes. He spoke widely from the Atlantic to the Middle West-in New York, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago, Kansas City, as well as in a number of other cities. With the comment on his effectiveness went the remark that he was a better advocate of Mr. Coolidge than he had been of Mr. Hughes eight years earlier...
Once there was a tradition in Texas: "No law west of the Pecos." In the old days, brave and bad, the pistol alone was guardian of good manners. In slightly later times a judge, one Roy Bean, conducted a combined saloon and courthouse in which it was his habit to decide shooting cases in a few minutes so as not to interfere with the regular business of the court-white lightning. They are gone, those days. Last week another judge, one Mullican, travelled 150 miles to Langtry on the Rio Grande, there held court. Helped by 250 witnesses, scores...
...protracted breach of good taste. When the sentence was read, he commiserated the jury for the caddish behavior which, he felt, had been forced upon them. "You couldn't help it," said he. "You had to do your duty." Nevertheless, a precedent has fallen. There is law west of the Pecos...
...bursar's building, to be called the Counting House. The first of these buildings to rise will be the Counting House, at the southwest corner of the Yard, on the site of Dane Hall; two dormitories flanking Holden Chapel; a dormitory between Matthews Hall and the west fence. Said the Crimson, undergraduate paper: "The idea ... is almost certain to arouse student opposition from at least a portion of the undergraduate body. It is new. It is sudden . . . hallowed ground. So away with it. . . . However, the idea rather grows...
...which, a man may give expression to whatever gifts he possesses, as gymnasium leader, boys' club director, boxing instructor, manual training and woodwork instructors glee club leader, or dramatic coach. An immediate opportunity is now being presented in the campaign of the Elizabeth Peabody Settlement House of the West End of Boston for leaders in these and similar branches of activity. The work calls for only an hour and a half of the student's time each week...