Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have tried to do, you would conclude, as I have, that not war, nor famine, nor pestilence have brought so much suffering and pain to the human race, as have hasty, ill-advised marriages, unions entered into without the knowledge, the preparation, the thought even an important commercial contract merits and receives. God made marriage an indissoluble contract, Christ made it a sacrament, the world today has made it a plaything of passion, an accompaniment of sex, a scrap of paper to be torn up at the whim of the participants...
Benjamin F. Wright, Jr., assistant professor of Government, will deliver a lecture on "The Growth of Due ProProcess" in Harvard 1 tomorrow at 3 o'clock. "The Rise and Decline of the Contract Clause" was discussed by Professor Wright yesterday. It was incorrectly scheduled for this afternoon...
...Contract Clause...
...Rise and Decline of the Contract Clause" is the first lecture. Here an attempt will be made to show that a clause placed in the Constitution almost as an afterthought was by a strange process of interpretation, turned into a powerful weapon for judicial destruction of varieties of legislation to which it was never intended to be made applicable...
...Memphis, Tenn. one night last month, Brenton Root, 32, contract investigator for a wholesale house, went to a hotel dance with some friends and his pretty wife, Daisy, 30. There the Roots, who had been living apart for six weeks, got into a quarrel because Mrs. Root resented her husband's attentions to a cigaret girl named Lucille Underwood. Daisy Root returned to her home, where she lived with her 4-year-old son. An hour later, pistol in hand, she entered Brenton Root's ome, awakened him, said, "Look at me, darling," shot him dead...