Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major share of the victory to the patience and acumen of its own lawyer, 38-year-old Eberhard P. Deutsch. Seldom is a newspaper's lawyer a hero in its editorial rooms. Even more seldom does a local barrister achieve note among the platoon of silk-hatted, wing-collared striped-trousered counsel which is attracted to an important constitutional case. Lawyer Deutsch, son of a Cincinnati pedagog, got a job in the circulation department of the Item-Tribune, went to Tulane University's law school at night, was admitted to the bar in 1925, has been the paper...
...Harvard third line, with Al Dewey at center, Ben Hallowell and Mike Hovenanian at the wing positions, showed the improvement consistent with a week of heavy practice, and will be on trial for the next couple of weeks as a possible high-powered attack unit...
...most intelligent opposition that has yet been offered to the Franco-Soviet Pact of mutual assistance was presented in the French Chamber last Tuesday by M. Taittinger of the Nationalist wing. He argued that France might be dragged into a war with Germany as a result of it and that the signing of the pact would be followed by fresh demands for financial assistance, even though past Russian debts were still unpaid. He also advanced the opinion that nothing should be done to irritate Germany at a time when peace was of such paramount importance...
...Hanfy did not realize the letter was a mistake, he was asked for one thing and he offered another. There is certainly material difference between support of the Tercentenary Fund and the prize scholarships, and an award which sends Harvard men to the birthplace of National Socialism under the wing of Hitler's piano player...
Still anxious to please Mrs. Taft, Architect Gilbert designed a courtroom that to the casual visitor is one of the most impressive chambers in the U. S. A row of Ionic columns surrounds it. Bronze and steel grilles shut off the wing corridors. A handsome sculptured frieze surrounds the walls. The bench itself is a chaste and dignified bar of polished mahogany...