Word: codicils
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...Miami hospital, Cohn repeatedly tried to obtain his signature on a document naming Rosenstiel's granddaughter, her husband and Cohn himself as executors of his will. One hospital attendant testified in a Florida court that Cohn "tried to take (Rosenstiel's) hand for him to sign" the codicil to his will. The lawyer eventually emerged with a document bearing what the New York judges described as "a number of 'squiggly' lines which in no way resemble any letters of the alphabet...
...world. But the message is countered by the displays of old automobiles built at a time when progress was desirable, not threatening. There is, after all, nothing inherently wrong with mobility, and for many Americans, the freedom granted by the car has been an unwritten codicil of the Declaration of Independence. The naive but still appealing designs of the futurists, the lines of the classic cars, retain the power to move an audience. They still raise hopes that manufacturers and city planners can yet produce excellence instead of excess, livability instead of untrammeled automobility...
...connection. Williams, in fact, may have had the strongest tie: his grandfather, the Rev. Walter E. Dakin, graduated from the divinity school in 1895. The original Williams will, dated September 1980, created a Walter E. Dakin Memorial Fund for creative writers and left the Williams papers to Sewanee. A codicil, dated December 1982, gives the papers to Harvard and puts the fund under the administration of the "chairman of the creative-writing department of Harvard University." Harvard, alas, does not have a creative-writing department (nor does Sewanee), and Dakin Williams plans to challenge his brother's will. Sewanee...
...codicil to his will, the Austrian man of letters Arthur Schnitzler instructed that a needle be thrust through his heart to remove any doubt of his death. As a novelist, short-story writer and playwright, best known for La Ronde, he had already probed the heart of the Viennese haute bourgeoisie with the lethal needle of wit, irony and skepticism, and pronounced it irrevocably dead...
...Reaganites presented the only document drawn up during the meetings. It was described as merely a "talking paper." It bore no relation to anything so grand as an "agreement," "codicil" or a "treaty of Detroit" outlining a "co-presidency"-terms later bandied wildly about the convention hall. A mere 1½ pages of double-spaced typing, it tried to sketch out how Ford would fit into the decisionmaking and paper flow of the White House. One specific point was that Ford would have daily supervisory authority, but not final power of decision, over the National Security Council, the Office...