Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tournament-loving, debt-ridden King Edward III (1312-77) took a poor view of unregulated trade. To punish merchants who went on selling their wares after a fair had officially closed, Edward's Parliament passed a law under which anyone who successfully sued a black-marketeer could collect part of the culprit's fine...
Down the centuries 42 additional acts under which private persons might bring an action and collect the fine money were passed. People who went in for this were officially called common informers.* Although branded "viperous vermin" by James I's Lord Chief Justice Sir Edward Coke, and dubbed "that legal cad" by Punch, the common informer prospered. His most fruitful law: the Sunday Observance Act of 1780. Actions against the promoters of Sunday wrestling matches have produced fines as high as $4,000. A woman collected $14,000 after suing the owners of a movie theater which...
...home-town boy named Duvallon, who sold his soul to Satan on a Christmas night. For 50 years thereafter, Duvallon was able to tote huge pine trees about on his shoulders and to float up & down the River Arc in a magic, unsinkable jacket. Satan at last came to collect, of course, suffused with devilish glee. Duvallon slipped his wife's wedding ring on his own finger for protection, jumped on his horse and galloped off to Rome. The Pope prescribed three Masses to foil Duvallon's pursuer-one in St. Peter's, one in Notre Dame...
Phillips Brooks House sends out 125 door-thumpers today to collect books, clothing, and sports equipment for needy students. The drive lasts until Wednesday night...
Four thousands four hundred and ninety-two students filed through Memorial Hall Monday to register for the Spring term, 106 less then signed up last September. Twelve men dropped out, transferred, or went into the service during the fall term, leaving 94 still unaccounted for. The University stands to collect a total of $940 in late registration fines from these students...