Word: assaulters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hallisey. The blood was red ink, the dagger rubber, the fight a charade planned by Professor Wheaton for the purpose of illustrating that the tesimony of eyewitnesses can differ. On Dec. 7, in Professor Wheaton's fully equipped courtroom at the law school, Hallisey will be tried for "assault with intent to kill." Senior law students will prepare the case against him and carry on the prosecution and defense, junior law students will testify. A real judge from the St. Louis Circuit Court of Appeals will preside; a real jury of "twelve good men and true" will...
...means of a few terse epigrams and a set of rock-ribbed rules.* Now the House was in revolt against its Tsar. The epigrams were impotent without the rules; so Democrats and insurgent Republicans, led by Representative (now Senator) George W. Norris of Nebraska, made an assault upon the rules. They voted to have the House choose the members of the Committee on Rules and ousted the Speaker from it. "Tsar" Cannon objected, was overruled. The House was in a turmoil; hostile Congressmen rushed at the Speaker's rostrum as if to tear him bodily from his throne...
...Coolidge sits in the White House blinking his dull eyes, with Mellon at his right hand, while the ravishment of decency and the assault upon the ballot is being perpetrated...
...barred last week from entering the Bellevue Casino at Biarritz, France, because, though in evening dress myself, I was accompanied by a secretary not formally garbed. Doubling my fist I made contact with the loutish doorman's jaw, passed within. When he instituted suit against me for assault next day, I retained to defend me the celebrated barrister, onetime Finance Minister de Monzie of France. My extravagances include the ownership of a fleet of airplanes which bring to me, wherever I may be, fresh caviar from Russia, poulards from Toulouse and other delicacies. I travel habitually in an airplane...
...skilled in the art of human intercourse, that art which consists of a measured degree of self-withdrawal combined with a hint of infinite comprehension. It is an art which can be practiced, in its higher degrees, only by amateurs, but when Bishop Ingram oversteps urbanity in his social assault upon the young persons submitted to his attention, he always has his Faith as an excuse. He has done an immense amount of good. He was appointed Lord Bishop of London at the early age of 43 upon nomination by the Crown after four years of a lesser episcopacy. Until...