Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chaining of one Sappho Jo Lawro and his partner, one Jakie Adler, proprietors of the Midnight Frolics Cafe, to iron bedsteads, and keeping them there for five days at pistol-point, until they paid over $100,000. Messrs. Lawro and Adler, evidently having done something shady themselves, dared not appeal to police...
...Reservations have been made by various countries and alternative texts provided, but the differences yet remaining have been defined and restricted. There is little doubt that the remaining differences will yield to treatment. . . . The issue now passes from the league into the hands of the general public to which appeal must be made...
...more exciting. The painful situations suggested above might be remedied by moving the hours secretly from door to door; they might even be replaced occasioually by domestic animals and wild beasts, thus giving all the suspense of the lady or the tiger. As it stands, however, the sport should appeal to all, adding as it does a touch of romance to the great American pastime. Here is amusement for the world-weary...
...Supreme Judicial Court or even for the Trial Judge. The Supreme Judicial Court has declared itself precluded by its own decisions from considering the credibility or weight of the testimony offered at the trial or of the affidavits presented as grounds for a new trial. This being so, an appeal to the Governor to appoint a commission a review matters, with which under our system of law the regular judicial machinery is incapable of dealing, differs in no essential respect from the appeal to the King's conscience out of which our present system of Equity has grown. Even...
...repealed (Acts and Resolves, 1910, 555). This is the present situation. The General Laws of 1921 simply state that "The court shall be held by one of the justices" (212,2); and that. "The court shall have original jurisdiction of all crimes" (212, 6), provision being made for appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court carefully limited to "a matter of law apparent upon the record...