Word: haired
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...international law and of the power of the Mexican executive to free Jenkins from the jurisdiction of the Puebla state court. The whole affair gives great opportunity for subtle argument, at which the Mexicans are so adept, and their note of refusal to our government is full of hair splitting legal distinctions...
...trouble with this," explained the great political economist, "was that it wasn't tough enough for the readers' taste. So a novel developed that was staged in the open, where the heroine was always Miss Middleton--always the Miss." Mr. Leacock went on to describe the hair-breadth escape from the Apaches of the typical couple alone far out in the wilderness; how the hero lowers the girl 200 feet down a precipice with his lariat, and they ride off together over the prairie to the little railway station, where they are to separate forever...
...flying wedge was introduced at the Harvard-Yale game of that year, and, although it is now abolished, it remains one of the most striking plays ever devised. Old fashions of the game still tarried on, and the long hair supposedly necessary for all players is one of the most picturesque. In these years the major games evolved almost to present dimensions, and great circling stands rose around the fields...
...second lieutenant, the thin bar of the first lieutenant, is a salute to the principle of order, of discipline, of organized effort. It is therefore answered by the superior rank. Neither the private who salutes nor the major general who returns the salute has lowered himself a hair breadth, socially or any other way, any more than has a civilian who has doffed his hat to a woman, a white haired old man, or the flag of his country. ---Chicago Tribune...
...clock. R. Harte '17, First Marshal of the class, will speak. Among the movie features of the evening will be a six-reel comedy featuring the inimitable Charlie Chaplin in "Shanghaied"; several "Mutt and Jeff" animated cartoons drawn by Bud Fisher, and a Western bill containing a hair-raising plot bustling with romance and adventure, surrounding a coterie of lovely ladies, a fair heroine and death-dealing cow-punchers...