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...legal polity is replete with prosecutions, in all of which the picture of a tyrannical and brutal trial judge occupies the most lurid position in the public mind. Especially the prosecutions in Ireland toward the close of the eighteenth century at the crucial stage of the American legal system threw its dark cloud upon the young nation looking for guidance. Consequently, in view of the abominations perpetrated under the name of the common law judges of Great Britain and the popular prejudice of the times against them, it is small wonder that the American attitude of regarding the unrestrained common...
...match of the season, proving itself one of the outstanding contenders for the Intercollegiate Championship. The matches and especially the tilt in the unlimited class between Captain T. D. Howe Jr. '28 and Cunco were of the best and most exciting ever held at the Columbia Gymnasium. Cunco finally threw Howe with a head and body hold, one minute and 57 seconds after the start of the first extra period...
...huge sly creature with barrel chest and four foot arms. It has a flat skull and sly, surly eyes. Last week, disregarding the signs that forbid feeding the animals, one J. H. Tate, principal of the Farragut Grammar School, near Knoxville, Tenn., threw this horrible creature a roasted peanut...
After a world-tour taking more than two years, Violinist Jascha Heifetz returned to Manhattan and made ready for a concert there. He played last in Mexico where audiences threw hats and gloves at him as at a favorite matador...
...went fairly crazy. Night after night they unharnessed the horses from my carriage and drew me through the street?, singing their student songs and leaping with lighted torches on either side of my victoria. Often, for hours, they would group themselves outside my hotel window and sing, until I threw them my flowers...