Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more surprised when I discovered that my dogeared copies of TIME held top priority with her. The ordinary luxuries like food, cigarettes, and candy had been around before, but your type of comprehensive news reporting was something she had never seen. It amazed and delighted her and, in her own words, made her "more American than German...
They were at the tag end of the term. Next week the court hopes to hang up its tailored black robes and go fishing, putter around its roses, and occasionally study legal papers. Behind them the Nine will leave some bewildered citizens, some disgruntled federal cops, a larger than usual number of baffled and unhappy lawyers, and one of the most adventurous records in the Supreme Court's long and loquacious history...
...court had not rushed in to grapple with any great constitutional problems. One of the justices called its course a policy of "self-denial." In the twelve years, only two congressional measures-neither of them major-had been declared unconstitutional. The court merely nibbled around the edges of the big, still unresolved questions, leaving it to time and changing customs to determine the ultimate shape of things. The nibbling was deliberate, and not the result of timidity. Rebuking by implication their immediate predecessors, the present justices insisted that it was Congress' job to legislate, not the court...
Suddenly she and Gubichev were arrested. Asked Archie: ". . . you were taken into a room and stripped?" Yes, said Judy, angrily. One female had held her, and another had taken off her clothes. Had they "pulled the clothes" off her? They had. They had also "probed around" her body and peeked into her mouth. Asked
...machine of the "Road" pictures, but a completely developed character from one of Runyon's best stories. True, there's plenty of the old Hope slapstick and a dozen of those gun-in-back wisecracks, but there's also a human being, Sorrowful Jones, the bookie, reacting to everything around him. It's good, moreover, because Lucille Ball Jerks tears with her smile of love and because the moppet, Mary Jane Sanders, carries off some of the Runyonesque color better than her elders would know how. In sports, "Sorrowful Jones" is sentimental to a fault; in spots...