Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Time spent in jail waiting for sentence cannot now be deducted from terms of a year or less. (Before, a prisoner sentenced to one year in prison after having spent three months waiting for sentence, could get out, with his compensation, in six months...
...compensation" to be earned by prisoners committed for their second offense is reduced to two months per annum. (Thus, a second offender sentenced to ten years flat cannot get out before eight years, four months. Before, he might be free in about six years.) Prisoners sentenced as habitual criminals must now stay in jail for the length of their natural lives, unless released by clemency of the Governor...
...with my carving skewer? Ha! Nom de Dieu! Standing at his filthy sink, he declared that my sauces stink, that they engender colic in delicate stomachs. My sauces! Sacre bleu! The pride of my cuisine. The pride of France. . . . "Mes amis, the sensibilities, the temperament of a great chef cannot be thus baited with impunity! Blood swam before my eyes. ... I skewered him it is true. . . . Next day he died at the hospital. . . . But it was to avenge my art, my sauces, my honor...
...actually applauded her when she strolled off the court with Borotra after having defeated a young Englishman and his lady. Borotra told the press that rheumatism in Mlle. Lenglen's neck and shoulders kept her from sleeping. "She is very ill ... she cries all the time . . . her mother cannot pacify her. . . ." Miss Ryan, too, fell ill, cancelled her matches. Nobody suggested that her illness was fantasy, for her temperature was only 101. Mlle. Lenglen...
Major-General Lassiter: that a plebiscite to determine the sovereignty of Tacna-Arica cannot be held (TIME, June 21) because of coercion by Chile of Peruvian voters. . . . "Lassiter has no right to accuse us of such an offense, the U. S. robbed and took by force the territories that she now owns and which before belonged to Mexico and other nations. Nor should we forget that she usurped territory from Colombia. It is not, then, a General of that nation who has the right to accuse...