Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true that one American in Hankow was spat upon during the troublous times in January, and it is possible that your reporter has erred in confusing this incident with the one recorded in your journal. But, although there is no doubt an implied insult in the act of expectoration upon one's person, yet surely this is a matter less grave than the flinging of dung, at least so far as the recipient is concerned...
...while on a ten-day furlough to Baltimore, onetime Devildog Tracy took some drinks, lost consciousness, awoke on an oyster dredge in Chesapeake Bay. He had been "shang-haied." Ill, he was put ashore. The Civil War was over before he recovered. . . . Last week the President signed an act of Congress ruling that Mr. Tracy's desertion was "involuntary." Henceforth he shall receive $50 monthly pension. ¶Said Gov. Alfred E. Smith to President Calvin Coolidge: "You can do anything you like here [New York] provided you don't get caught." Said President Coolidge to Governor Smith: "Well...
Landlords v. Bootleggers. Landlords whose tenants violate the Prohibition Act may legally cancel leases of said tenants. Tenants so evicted may not have a jury trial on the issue. So, last week, ruled the U. S. Supreme Court in the case of James Duignan of New York against the Pall Mall Realty...
...Interstate Commerce Act and Cases," Professor Elliott, Harvard 1. Government...
...those officers trying to protect the goal-posts after the Princeton football game, and I know how those boys act," he said, "I like all the Harvard and Princeton boys, but they are altogether too rough. True, none of us were hurt during the fracas, but at the same time, some of our old bones were given a few hard bumpe...