Word: balms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Court of Appeals came the case of a man who wanted to sue another man for alienating his wife's affections and criminal conversation (adultery). The case (Hanfgarn v. Mark) had been appealed to test two phases of New York's 1935 anti-heart balm act. For the plaintiff, counsel claimed that the rights which a husband has in the affection and society of his wife are property rights. After citing legal precedents, counsel turned to Petruchio's lines about his wife Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew (Act III, Scene...
...last day of 1936 in the case of Fearon v. Treanor was the section of the law banning breach of promise suits. Last week in the U. S. Supreme Court Nurse Catherine Fearon of New York filed an appeal seeking to have New York's anti-heart balm act declared unconstitutional. Cited by her lawyer was Article I, section 10 of the U. S. Constitution: "No State shall.. . pass any . . . law impairing the obligation of contracts. . . ." In the Hanfgarn v. Mark opinion New York's Court of Appeals ruled that marriage "is not a common-law contract...
...exhausting hours of ministrations by the Archbishop of Canterbury and others as officially a persona mixta or "mixed person." In the eyes of faithful, devout members of the Church of England, His Majesty is henceforth a mixture of priest and layman. He has been anointed with holy oil or balm as a bishop is consecrated, and upon his head has briefly rested what is called St. Edward's Crown. This is too sacred to be worn in the open or seen...
...luck with the weather this season. Both of their outdoor games so far have been cancelled due to lack of ice, those with Milton Academy and Exeter, and yesterday their tilt with Cambridge Latin was postponed. This encounter was scheduled for the Arena, but the outdoor balm penetrated within and melted the works. The teams will meet Wednesday afternoon...
...when he waved a fat roll of typed paper at the arthritis specialists. The roll, said he, was 31 ft. long. All that yardage was needed to list the patent medicines sold over U. S. drugstore counters for the cure of arthritis. They included analgesics like aspirin, local balms like antiphlogistine, blood builders like ferric ammonium citrate. Some of their names: Joyzone Pain Analgesic, Clear Water Joint Ease, Rising Mist, Wizard Balm, U-Rub-It, Rivet Cold Breaker, Pain Knocker, Oil-O-Youth, Root-Tea-Na-Salve...