Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Darrow, defense counsel, arrived. Finding shy young Scopes in the crowd, asked Darrow: "Is Bryan here? Is he all right? It would be very painful to me to hear that he had fallen a victim to synthetic sin." The Courtroom. Lawyers Colby of Manhattan and Godsey of Dayton having withdrawn from the case (the latter cowering before public opinion), there sat with Lawyer Darrow and Teacher Scopes in the courtroom only plump, foppish Lawyer Malone of Manhattan and Judge Neal of Knoxville, Tenn. Fumbling his soiled lavender galluses, slowly masticating a quid of tobacco, Darrow squinted across at Lawyer Bryan...
...chain of blockhouses. Again and again, the tribes under Abd-el-Krim surrounded these small forts, with the result that the French had to undertake a series of expensive attacks in order to relieve them. As soon as the blockhouses had been provisioned and the relieving troops had withdrawn, the Riffs again surrounded them and relief fighting had to begin over again...
...Sloane Coffin, Liberal leader. But somehow, war lost its glamor; and. last week, Dr. Erdman was elected Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, succeeding Dr. Macartney, signifying truce. The General Assembly set to work: An overture to excind from the Church the liberally inclined Presbytery of New York was withdrawn. Resolutions for the Volstead Act, against crime, were passed. Unanimous encouragement was given to a plan to erect a magnificent church in Washington to be the centre of the faith. Said Mr. Bryan: "It is a great pleasure to endorse something that will pass this Assembly unanimously." He added that...
...death of a man or woman of genius must always appear in the light of a spiritual catastrophe, national to the country whose artistic potentialities are reduced by the loss, acutely personal to the immediate circle from which the individual has been withdrawn. Amy Lowell is dead. In her death American literature, undistinguished save for its pitiful cleavage to the dust of mediocrity, has lost one of its few bright lights of promise; and the thought of New England, and particularly of the University, has been deprived of an intellect whose power and originality were of a peculiarly rare...
...helper of young poets, as a biographer. Amy Lowell is a tragic loss to the country. Miss Lowell was the most versatile, and all things considered the most important American woman of letters. We shall realize only gradually what a keen and vital force in literature has been withdrawn...