Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Graduated from Princeton in 1900, he studied law at the University of Pittsburgh, was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1903, entered his father's law firm of Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay. The late Senator Knox, friend of the Reed family, helped guide his career. His law practice dealt chiefly with corporations and public utilities-interests closely allied with those of Andrew William Mellon...
...Marksmen were saddened to learn last week that "Twill" had resigned. He will leave his post before the autumn. Headmaster "Twill" has earned his rest. For 36 of the school's 64 years he has managed and governed St. Mark's, punished and rewarded socialite children, dealt tactfully with agitated parents, wangled needful endowments from graduates. After being graduated by Amherst in 1885, attending the Union Theological Seminary and Episcopal Theological School (Cambridge), he was ordained an Episcopal minister. For five years before being called to the headmastership of St. Mark's, he taught at Groton School...
...Kiss (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Greta Garbo is in this one. It is silent, yet its climax takes place in the locale that sound pictures have dealt with more successfully than any other?a murder trial. Garbo's brilliance as one more misunderstood wife is alone responsible for the crowds that lined up a block long to see it in cities where it was shown last week. Her husband is older than she. She kills him when he is pummeling a boy who tried to kiss her. Her lawyer, who is her real lover, convinces the jury that her husband committed...
...instance which is dealt with in the volume concerns the administration of President Pierce, in 1855, when Jefferson Davis was Secretary of War. The Great American Desert was at that time a sizable obstacle in the way of transportation from the west to the east. Davis had, as Senator from Mississippi, conceived of the idea of inaugurating a camel route across the desert in order to relieve the situation, and when he became Secretary of War he secured an appropriation of $30,000 from Congress to carry out his scheme...
According to a Court functionary, His Majesty ignored everything but the fairy tales, pounced on the big book, retreated to an armchair, buried his nose. Soon, perhaps, Boy-King Mihai was reading the story of Dwarf-King Gleamlet, getting ideas about Kingship from the tale of how Royal Gleamlet dealt with Whisk, the field rat, who had stolen his grain...