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...silent. No Harvard men gave any support to Hubbard's charges. But the judges and referees who officiated at the games were soon heard from. W. R. Okeson of Lehigh, referee and field judge, testifies that the games "were just good, clean contests between a lot of fine, decent boys coached by gentlemen sportsmen." W. G. Crowell, umpire and referee, described them in almost exactly the same language and said that violations of the rules were few and that penalties were imposed. "The players," said F. W. Murphy, umpire and field judge, "conducted themselves in a sportsmanlike manner." The Harvard...
...wondrous wise. He, Frank S. Snook, has just been appointed Chief of the State Department of Motor Vehicles. Snook immediately canceled 3,000 special badges issued to favored motorists, which are supposed to make them immune from arrest. Then he issued orders that "arrests shall be made in a decent, manly fashion, without abuse and without insulting-language or attitude, which occasionally has caused resentment...
...farm, how with her husband and son she had moved, long before the boom, to Palatka, Fla., where she taught in school, and sang "with unusual effect" in churches. All the time she wanted to start a school of her own, a school to "make colored girls plain and decent." She began in a rented house with five girls. She got five dollars for singing at a festival and made the first payment on the site of her present Bethune-Cookman College, at that time a dump-pile. Her girls cleared away the rubbish to give the-workmen room...
Referring to the case, Crown Attorney (Prosecutor) Eric Armour said sternly: "One may attack the Christian religion if one does so in decent reasonable language; but publications which in an indecent spirit asperse Christianity or the Scriptures, and do so in a language calculated and tended to shock the feelings and outrage the belief of mankind, are held to be liable to prosecution...
...Here's the New York Evening Post's corner?the Old Couples' Christmas Fund. No one under 60; not one's had a decent meal since last Christmas. Documents to prove it; every case investigated. Better than ever before?older, poorer, sicker, more miserable. Testimonials by Fannie Hurst, Rex Beach, Konrad Bercovici, Frank