Word: rounded
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...back, bald in front. He smokes a pipe, carries a light cane, affects black string neckties and Quakerish felt hat. He lives three blocks from the courthouse in a big rambling house, open to all, keeps no servant, is familiarly called "Judgie". He attends Reno's endless round of cocktail parties, socializes with the city's smart divorce-seekers, declares: "I'm Wet, damned Wet. One can't develop strength of character by restriction." His divorce doctrine is equally simple: "I regard happiness as a fundamental cornerstone for a union. When experience shows a mistake...
...Give to Gandhi's party (Nationalist) "an adequate but not majority representation" at the Indian Round Table Conference scheduled for October in London...
...political prisoners be released, and that all fines collected from Indians for political offenses be paid back to them by the British Raj. After these "preliminary demands" had been met, the Gandhites declared, they would be willing to discuss the question whether they should send representatives to the Round Table...
Sadly the London Times summed up last week's events in a really brilliant platitude, remarked "It is plain" that at the London Round Table Conference the party of Mahatma Gandhi will be "under-represented...
Last week Max Baer, second rate California heavyweight, won a bout from Frankie Campbell, San Francisco Italian, by a knockout. In the second round Baer fell in Campbell's corner, half-slipping, half knocked down. Campbell went to a neutral corner and stood with his back to his fallen opponent, looking out over the crowd. The referee ruled that Baer had slipped, motioned him to get up. Baer rushed across the ring and while Campbell stood with his back turned hit him terrific punches. "I feel as though something in my head had cracked," Campbell told his handlers...