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Word: barring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Law Review will embark on its forty-third year of publication with its November issue. Sir William Searle Holesworth. Vinerian Professor of English Law at All Souls' College. Oxford, Erwin N. Griswold of the Ohio Bar Association. Professor Felix Frankfurter, LLB. '06, and James M. Sandis are among the contributors to the first number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 10/15/1929 | See Source »

...Capitol Theatre, St. Catherine's, Canada, patrons cracking crisp shells made sound pictures hard to hear, caused the manager to bar peanuts, peanut eaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Variations Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Carry smashed a cigar-stand in Coney Island, acted in Elizabeth, N. J., in Hatchetation (originally Ten Nights in a Bar-room), lectured in a burlesque show in Springfield, Mass. Hearing President McKinley was shot, she lost favor by saying "I have no sympathy for this friend of the brewers." When President Roosevelt refused to receive her, she revealed that he was a cigaret-smoker, also that "Government, like dead fish, stinks worse at the head." In 1911 she died in Leavenworth Kan. "Faithful to the Cause of Prohibition; She Hath Done What She Could" - so ran her epitaph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Christ's Bulldog | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...Director of the Philadelphia Department of Public Safety was cut short when politicians decided that his drying-up tactics were somewhat too robust. Last week, as Commander of the Quantico (Va.) Marine base, he launched another campaign when he discovered one of his non-commissioned officers tending bar for a Quantico village bootlegger. He prohibited his enlisted men from going to the village. Frantic merchants, losing lucrative soldier trade, appealed to the General. He retorted dourly that he would parade his men back to town in a body-after "bootlegging and lawlessness had been stamped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quantico's Quandary | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Born at LeHavre in 1875, his education was completed at the Lycee Condorcet, the Faculte des lettres, Faculte de droit, and School of political science, after which he became a member of the French bar. He was also a member of the "Society of the French Renaissance," professor of the School of political science, and chevalier of the Legion of Honor, besides having a British Military Medal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIEGFRIED COMES HERE GUEST OF LIBERAL CLUB | 9/28/1929 | See Source »

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