Word: winfield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scholars by the Harvard Law School. The recipients of these honorary doctorships of law were William W. Buckland, president of Caius and Gonville colleges, Cambridge, England, Regius professor of Civil Law at Cambridge University and one of the outstanding authorities of the world on Roman Law, and Perey H. Winfield. Rouse Professor of English Law at Cambridge...
...oldest law school publication in the country will have as its speakers for the evening: Joseph H. Beale, Royall Professor of Law, one of the editors of the first volume of the Review, Perey H. Winfield, Rouse Ball Professor at St. Johns College, Cambridge, England, W. G. Thompson, prominent member of the Boston bar, Julien, W. Mack, United States Circuit Judge and a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School...
...impose the Equity closed shop on Hollywood cinemacting (TIME, July 8 et seq.) were last week crystallized. Four secret meetings were held in Hollywood between an actors' committee (Equity President Frank Gillmore, Ethel Barrymore, Paul Turner, of the New York Equity office) and a producers' committee (Winfield Sheehan, Irving Thalberg, Jack Warner, B. P. Schulberg, Joseph Schenck, Mike Levee, Cecil B. DeMille, Louis Mayer). The result was a complete deadlock, but both sides, for perhaps the first time, made themselves clear...
Helma was an offish, disdainful girl, daughter of a lawyer in Byzantium, Ohio. She went to the local college where a freshwater esthete named Winfield Gaines (but called "Phoebe") was her friend until he was expelled. She studied singing with a local teacher who had a book called Lyra Operatica, full of stilted engravings of old singers in the pinched and flowing costumes of classic roles. She herself had a big rich voice. It was for church-singing, perhaps someday teaching. Certainly not for the sinful ways of opera. But when her father and mother died, Helma went...
...Fifth Avenue (Manhattan) Baptist Church when the erect, square-shouldered law clerk strode down the aisle to take his seat. "There," they whispered to one another, "is the Good Young Man of our church." And later, when they walked home with their children, they were apt to say: "Winfield, I wish you wouldn't keep your hands in your pockets. He never does."Or, again:"Ulysses, don't hang your head. Stand up straight, as he does...