Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A knowledge of politics is by no means a disqualification for the bench.* Said Justice Henry T. Lummus of the Massachusetts Supreme Court: "There is no certain harm in turning a politician into a judge. He may be or become a good judge. The curse of the elective system is...
Lawyer Page sometimes thinks of his old home town as a former mistress-"a sunny-tempered, laughing girl who never wore a girdle." But as he re-explores the town's anatomy, the memory is proved wrong: a girdle is there, all right-all the stays and bones of...
Lost Generation. In Columbus, Ohio, the Rev. Dr. W. Frederick Miller complained to the Ohio Pastors' Convention about the lack of spiritual and musical preparation of most church choirs, commented: "I feel that off-key singing is dishonest."
When President Eisenhower committed the United States to the defense of Formosa and the Pescadores, even at the cost of war with Communist China, he revived a Constitutional problem virtually as old as the nation, the issue of war-making power. Ever since the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, political theorists...
After the dedication he whirled off to a luncheon of the 60th annual convention of the Episcopal diocese, where he reminded the audience: "Although I am of Caesar. I did try to render unto God that which was His."