Word: classicism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the White House to the Senate with Mr. Garrett's went two other names that caused much less elation. One was Irvine Luther Lenroot, onetime (1918-27) Wisconsin Senator, to sit also on the Customs Appeals bench; the other, Henry H. Classic, Maryland Democrat and once a very much abused U. S. Tariff Commissioner, to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia...
...Classic's wife and brothers owned Louisiana cane sugar mills. The sugar duty came before the Tariff Commission. Commissioner Glassie voted against reduction of the sugar rate, tied the Commission, blocked action, helped Calvin Coolidge out of a 1924 campaign hole. In the Senate he was denounced...
...Harvard University, scene of so many classic defeats, Old Gold bit the dust," notes The New York World in commenting on the recent cigarette test given a group of undergraduates. That New York editorial writer may have phrased those words with a great deal of subtlety...
...sole track event in which the University team will be shut out is the 45-yard high hurdles. Caruthers of Cornell headed the timber-toppers in last year's classic, tying the triangular meet record of six seconds. Heasely, his teammate is not capable of equaling that performance, but is expected to finish a safe second. Alcorn, Green hurdler who captured second honors last year, is generally conceded the leader in this class. He has been clocked at 6 2-5 seconds in a recent time trial at Hanover in the 50 yard hurdles. Putnam will most probably finish third...
...assassin, Jose de Leon Toral. had been executed by a firing squad, earlier in the week. The officer in charge with a pistol which once belonged to General Obregon, had stepped up to the prostrate, bullet-riddled body of Toral, pressed the pistol to the temple and delivered the classic Mexican coup de grace...