Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arthur Brisbane, able journalist, was a luncheon guest. He was permitted to roam through the White House and observe the alter- ations-more bookshelves in the President's upstairs study; bigger and better linen closets ("Wives of Presidents in years to come will bless the name of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge," said Mr. Brisbane); a new rug in the Red Room in the middle of which is an angry eagle with E Pluribus Unum above his head, with an olive branch in his right claws, arrows in his left. The eagle is glaring at the arrows and Mr. Brisbane said...
Actually, the line of succession is not endangered by the carelessness of the Imperial Stork, for Hirohito has three brothers?Prince Yasuhito, 25; Prince Nobuhito, 22; Prince Takahito, 11. But nothing can alter the fact that the paramount duty of the Empress is to provide her royal lover with a bouncing baby Crown Prince. The joy of Japan would know no limit, if this happy event should occur...
...bags packed, took the so vital document into his personal care, and embarked on the maiden voyage of the just completed flagship of the French Line, the Ile de France (sixth largest ship-41,000 tons). That Mr. Herrick had previously planned to come home, anyway, did not alter the effectiveness of his beau geste...
Whereupon Mr. Perovich grumbled, protested. He preferred a death sentence to a life sentence. And, in 1925, a Kansas District Judge ruled that the presidential right to annul a sentence (by pardon) did not include the right to alter it (by commutation) without the prisoner's consent. Thus mercy became high-handed, clemency a usurpation. Furthermore, since Mr. Perovich was being illegally held, his detention could not continue, so he was released under a habeas corpus writ. At large, Mr. Perovich opened a barber shop, has spent the last two years law-abidingly wielding shears and razor...
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