Word: codicils
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...Codicil. In Manistee, Mich., 83-year-old John Schultz admitted burning down his house and four other buildings on his farm, explained that it was the only way to stop his relatives from wrangling over who would inherit his property...
Four months ago, after a squabble with his imperious boss, he had left the paper, but had stayed on as her personal fiscal adviser until shortly before her death. Then, six weeks ago, he had learned that a codicil to Cissie Patterson's will had cut him out of a million-dollar share in the Times-Herald when she left it to seven other company officials (TIME...
...boss, was taking no chances. The Peace Treaty would limit the Bulgarian Army; the remnant must be men the Communists could count on. "Unreliable" civil officials were being swept out of office with what Dimitroff briskly called "the iron broom." In preparation was a National Education Bill containing a codicil about the political, beliefs of professors and students. Next would come a constitutional assembly from which Agrarian leaders feared they would be excluded...
Seven Days Leave (RKO-Radio). In this musical lalapalooza, it is Private View tor Mature's business to woo and wed Lucille Ball during his brief army leave, in order to fulfill a codicil in eccentric Grandfather's will and inherit $100,000. The various soldierly and legal comics who help him are so neolithic that Mr. Mature at his best seems no worse than a particularly acute touch of Hodgkin's disease. Lucille Ball looks patient, tired, a little frightened. As her young sister, 17-year-old Newcomer Marcy McGuire makes a charming jitterbug for those...
Left. By Circusman John Ringling; to the State of Florida: some $20,000,000, the bulk of his estate. A $5,000 annuity was left to a sister, Ida Ringling North, in a codicil to an original will that left her half the estate...