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...clined peppery old Mr. Thomas' invitation to make a test case of his violation. Last week aged, defiant Hoarder Thomas lay ill in his hoary red stone Denver mansion, but he was pleased to know that one member of his family was to go to court to defend what the Thomases believed were their Constitutional right...
...British-American war an ever present danger. Three thousand miles of unfortified boundary separate the United States and Canada. The military value of the waterway treaty, if war were declared, has no more than a scholastic importance; the military value of the waterway itself, concentrated and infinitely easier to defend than any Atlantic port, is negligible. The defeat of the St. Lawrence project on sectional grounds would be politically intelligible; Its defeat on grounds such as this, besides creating a difficult international situation, would be political bathos...
From his list, Publisher Funk wisely omitted any definition of "jargon," gave no examples. If he meant the ten men who had coined the greatest number of slang words, his list would have been hard to defend. Astute commentators doubted whether any of the ten had ever coined any slang...
...fine or else. . . if they held college exercises on these days has been exploded with admission from University authorities themselves that it was merely a matter of custom to count the days as holidays. This blows up the last rampart that was used in an effort to defend the University's position and it now seems a ripe time to inaugurate a holiday system which is convenient to everyone and affords a more pleasant vacation, in place of an annoying odd day here and there throughout the fall and spring...
...Darrow has attained prominence as a criminal lawyer in several notable cases of which the first was the McNamara case in California. After his victory in the Loeb-Leopold trial he was called to defend in the spectacular Scopes case in 1925. This was the case in which a Tennessee school teacher was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan for teaching the theory of evolution to his innocent pupils in violation of a state law. Darrow took the defense with Arthur Garfield Hayes and Dudley Field Malone and by carrying the case to the Tennessee Supreme Court, managed to get Scopes...