Word: avail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opened court with the case of Howe v. Howe, an action to set aside a property settlement on a wife. Up popped noisy Lawyer Jacob Wilbur ("Jake") Ehrlich, 37, who once successfully defended Alexander Pantages against a rape charge. Said he, "Your Honor, it gives me great pleasure to avail myself of Section 170.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure. . . ." Thus he asked that the case be transferred to another judge. The momentary silence in the courtroom was acute. The judge was slightly abashed. While conversation buzzed the request was referred to Presiding Judge C. Julian Goodell who transferred...
...student will obtain the education best suited to this abilities. After the sophomore year those upperclassmen who give evidence of being able to profit from a type of tutorial instruction which places a large degree of responsibility upon the individual student, and who furthermore desire to avail themselves of such instruction, will carry on under Plan A full-time tutorial work as in the past...
Everything went off without a hitch, except for the fact that the Baby Whale, the official coaching boat for the day, balked in indignation at the new innovation. With Bolles safely installed aboard, attempts to start the outboard motor proved of no avail. A large crowd assembled on Larz Anderson Bridge to watch the struggle with great glee. Steady cranking accomplished nothing until the flash of distant oars was seen. Then the motor took heart and started, all too late, however, for the crews were just returning...
...apparent that their own hastily-assembled armada was in no shape for a cruise, let alone a fight. Many of their ships were obsolete, the crews ignorant, ill-fed, mutinous. The commander, Admiral Rozhestvensky, an egotistical apoplectic, kept the air blue with curses, insults, frantic orders, all to no avail. The fleet did its poor best, shrugged its shoulders, called him "the mad admiral...
...Last year the Falmouth teletype flashed to Liberty one of Editor Oursler's decisions : to publish the "inside story" of Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon, the garrulous Bronx schoolmaster who projected himself into the Lindbergh kidnapping case and helped Colonel Lindbergh get rid of $50,000 to no avail. A guest at West Falmouth, "Jafsie" had convinced Editor Oursler, who candidly admits his magazine function is primarily to entertain the publie, that he had "new material" to reveal...