Word: barring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guest of honor of the affair will be Professor A. L. Goodhart of Cambridge University, American and English legal authority, and now visiting professor at the Yale Law School. After studying at Yale and Cambridge, he started his practice at the New York bar. In 1919 he was admitted to the English bar, and subsequently became a fellow and lecturer at Cambridge. In addition to these positions he is editor-in-chief of "The Law Quarterly Review" of that University...
...Washington, as a moral offset to the anti-Five & Ten legal committees, steps were taken to organize a "Bar of the United States," composed of lawyers in Federal practice pledged to all law enforcement including Prohibition. Charles William Freeman headed the organizing committee, with William R. Vallance, Assistant Solicitor of the Department of State and president of the Federal Bar Association, as chief assistant. Only "earnest advocates" of law enforcement are eligible, though on Prohibition, "personal beliefs" would not be considered...
...enough really to survive the war. Last week his energy and fire easily surpassed that of any rival; and both Laborites and Conservatives were in deadly fear lest the man who won in 1918 by promising to "Hang the Kaiser!" should hornswoggle the country, outsmart everyone in post-election bar gaining, and by hook or crook achieve the Prime Ministry once more...
Outside was the dark and curving Soho alley, with the foggy lights of a Singhalese restaurant, a French bookshop, a wig-maker's, an oyster bar. And the room was violently foreign, with frescoes by a sign painter−or a barn-painter: Isola Bella. Fiesole, Castel Sant' Angelo. But Sam did not look at them. He−who but once in his life had attended a Rotary lunch−looked at the Rotary wheel, and his smile was curiously timid. There was no reason for it apparent to him, but suddenly these banners made him feel that...
...many as 60 bars, some as long as the Tiajuana bar, are erected each year for temporary use at Aintree, England, scene of the Grand National Steeplechase (TIME, March 18). Other bars which claimed to be the longest in the world were: the Atlantic Bar of Butte, Mont., where 24 bartenders catered to the miners: and the L-shaped Fritz & Russell bar of Portland, Ore. Seeking elite patronage, Fritz -& Russell used to advertise: "See the largest bar in the world, lined with the working giants of the woods, taking their glasses of beer and telling tales of the forest...