Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey of the Denver Juvenile Court was last week served a court order officially ousting him from his position. The order was the result of the Colorado Supreme Court's decision last winter that Judge Lindsey's election in 1924 had been illegal. As Judge Lindsey's opponent, Royal R. Graham, had died since the election, the office was declared vacant and the County Commissioners appointed to it Attorney Robert W. Steele. It was under this man's father, then (1899) Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court that Judge Lindsey first...
...Charles Scribner (books), Cyrus McCormick (reapers), Henry B. Thompson (cotton), Gordon Rentschler (National City Bank). Though he is a partner of Dillon, Read & Co., most people know Dean Mathey as a tennis player who, in 1916, was ranked No. 10 by the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. Last winter, he and Watson M. Washburn (Harvard man) forced Borotra and Brugnon, French invading champions, to a five-set match before accepting defeat in the Heights Casino indoor tournament in Brooklyn. "For an old banker," Mr. Mathey thinks this highly commendable. One other trustee, Frederick P. Scott, 1900, was elected...
...clubs do not come into contact except in the informal joint concert the evening of the Yale-Harvard football game. . . . Since this does not provide an opportunity for a presentation of the best work of the clubs, would it not seem advisable to hold is joint cncert in the winter or spring, in which both clubs might take part in the more elaborate programs which they are capable of offering and which real music lovers would delight to hear? . . ." The answer to this interrogation was forthcoming on the following day when the president of the Harvard Glee-Club announced...
...Best", a Nation article advocates the complete and utter demolishment of what is known in publishing parlance as summer fiction. The writer very wisely points out that vacation time is just exactly when one has the most leisure and inclination to read those books which in the buster winter time have been negiected. New books are not necessarily the best says the magazine--not a thought of much startling originality but nevertheless one which bears repetition...
...what should they choose whose winter has been spent in reading what is more or less old and classic? When January has been devoted to Spinoza or January has been devoted to Spinoza or Jonson what is the fate of July? In other words--should the college man read during vacation and if so, what? A dull rumbining noise will signify in many cases that benign tutors have been careful in tending to the matter and that there will be no radical change, for one should in theory be able to derive as much information from Aristotie when the temperature...