Word: wright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Viscount Gladstone, 73, lively son of the late famed Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, continued last week to make unbridled use of the adjective "foul," as the libel suit brought against him by Captain Peter Wright (TIME, Feb. 7) continued. Originally Viscount Gladstone merely declared: "Captain Wright is a foul fellow!" referring to aspersions cast upon Prime Minister Gladstone in Captain Wright's book: Portraits and Criticisms (TIME, July 26). But last week, when Viscount Gladstone took the stand, he delivered himself as follows: "Captain Wright made a foul and loathsome charge against my father...
Verdict. The jury, after a brief absence, returned the verdict that it was not libelous for Viscount Gladstone to have referred to Captain Wright as "a foul fellow . . . a liar ... a coward . . . and a fool." Having thus squelched the Captain, the foreman of the jury addressed the presiding justice as follows: "My lord, the jury wish to add that it is our unanimous opinion that the evidence placed before us has completely vindicated the hieh moral character of the late Mr. William Ewart Glad-stone...
Irate Lillie. During the trial Captain Wright referred to one-time famed actress Lillie Langtry as " 'The Jersey Lily' . . . well-known in the U. S. to have been Mr. Gladstone's mistress" (TIME...
...announced by the committee. The other patronesses include Mrs. W. B. Cannon, Mrs. D. K. David, Mrs. A. L. Endicott, Mrs. O. D. Kellogg, Mrs. R. B. Merriman, Mrs. D. O. Swain, Mrs. J. S. P. Tatlock, Mrs. R. DeC. Ward, Mrs. E. C. Whiting and Mrs. B. F. Wright...
...Score, Harvard 54, Williams 37, Field goals, Leekley 7, Dorn 5, Zinn 4, Barbee-3, Coombs 3, Sterling 3, Shumway 3, Malick 2, Wright 2, Betham 2, Green, Brown. Fouls, Leekley 5, Shumway 4, Green 2, Coombs 2, Barbee 2, Dorn, Wright, Zinn, Betham, Referee, J. R. Ruby. Time, four 15minute quarters...