Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apparent disposition to classify has lead S. N. Behrman to call his new play, "Wine of Choice," a comedy. Its only claim to that category is that it is not sublimely tragic. It is certainly not funny; its neatly turned phrases and condensed, polished dialogue are not calculated to make it that. Nor is it entertaining or satisfying; it confirms no one in his preconceptions. Rather is it irritating social comment with a few dramatic moments carelessly thrown...
...telephone call from one John Womack. His voice trembling, Mr. Womack related that his wife, Bertha Mae, had been sideswiped by a dairy truck in East St. Louis, knocked to the pavement where she gave premature birth to a dead child. Mr. Womack added that he would settle his claim immediately for $2,000. Preferring to investigate, a company representative found plump Bertha Mae bedded in a local hospital. Physicians decided she had given birth to a child but could discover no evidence of external injury. Carrying his inquiries further among insurance adjusters, the investigator learned so much about...
...guerilla stage accurate coverage becomes impossible, and correspondents settled down for a long siege of guessing. They were certain that 1,000,000 rifles had not just been passed out among the Chinese peasantry, an impossible fantasy which Chinese newsorgans gravely reported as a fact. Another wildly absurd claim which appeared in the Chinese press was that a 2,500-mile railroad between China and Soviet Russia would be completed within three months...
...Japan must have more babies!" the baron cried. "It is a deplorable fact that young women of today are practicing birth control in the interests of beauty. They claim children spoil their beauty. This philosophy is a tragic mistake. Japan must have more babies...
Although the Holmes precedent compelled Judge Harry M. Fisher to deny Mrs. Smith's claim, he advised her to appeal to higher courts, because: "I think, personally, that Justice Holmes was wrong. . . . The law elsewhere recognizes an unborn child as an individual. A woman who causes an abortion upon herself, or a doctor who performs such an operation can be charged with manslaughter-the unlawful killing of a human being...