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...foreign debts, France has never repudiated them. She has already paid important sums for interest. . . . She had decided in future to acquit herself loyally to the extent of her capacity and to limits of the possibilities of transfer...
...Senate then sits as a court presided over by the Vice President. Judge English will be entitled to be represented by attorneys. The "prosecuting attorneys" will be a Board of Managers (five or seven) appointed by the House from its own members. After the trial the Senate can either acquit the judge or (as a maximum penalty) remove him from office. A two-thirds vote is necessary for conviction...
...game was good and clean, with no fouls against either side. And, because the U. S. Army officers and their mounts were in the very best of condition, they were able to acquit themselves properly and to defeat the British Army Polo Team by 8 goals to 4 in the first game of a two-out-of-three series...
Maitre Henri Robert asked the jury to acquit "the young stranger here and to give an answer without leaving this courtroom and this child...
...Gigli, whenever he sings with her, must swell his cockerel bosom, look to his biceps if he would be seen to play the man. In the last act of Fedora, hero and heroine meet, brawl; the latter is hurled to the ground. Gigli was determined to acquit himself well. Fiercely he struggled against the onslaught of Jeritza, flung her from him as prescribed; but ah! too boisterous was the fling. Headlong went she, to land in the glass and metal of the footlights, spraining and cutting her wrist. She arose, the performance went on to its applauded end. Two days...