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...confused with the Hague Court, though located at the Hague. The Hague Court is not actually a court, but a panel of international jurists from among whom several are assigned to consider a given case, if and when it is presented for adjudication by the disputants. The World Court, on the other hand, consists of a definite court of judges who sit together on every question. They are nominated through the machinery of the Hague Court and elected by the Assembly of the League of Nations...
...crew of giants. Two of them were six feet five inches high; their average height was six feet three; even the coxswain was a big man. This display of brawn had caused some apprehension in the minds of Princeton undergraduates and now as the two shells slipped over a panel of golden water, glazed with sunset, it was apparent that this apprehension was not unfounded. The Princeton crew rowed hard; the Washington crew rowed easily; the Princeton coxswain barked excitedly; the Washington, coxswain chanted a beat as slow as a Baptist psalm. At the mile the men of Princeton, tiring...
...solve this gritty problem a Citizens Play Jury was planned some years ago. A panel of several hundred jurors, intelligent citizens from all walks of life, was drawn. When a complaint was lodged a dozen of these jurors were delegated to judge the entertainment. If nine of the dozen found it, or any part of it, unfit, the whole or the part was to be withdrawn. The Producing Managers Association and the Actors Equity Association pledged themselves to enforce its decrees by withdrawing their plays or calling out their actors...
...censorship, in spite of occasional lapses such as the present, has worked well. Since it draws support from the actors themselves, the board of suppression has at least an understanding of the problems of playwrights. For this reason, the play jury is infinitely more desirable than a miscellaneous panel of up-right but ill-informed moralists...
...square of water, as blue as a banner, a liquid panel like a window into star-space, it dreams, moveless, in the white tile floor. Drawn up against walls patterned less purely with tiles of ochre and green and ruby, naked attendants in breech clouts wait to knead and oil the bathers in the hot rooms, steam rooms, medicated rooms, therapeutic rooms beyond...