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...Obiter dicta. Meanwhile, Louis Marshall, able Manhattan lawyer, who represented the Tyson agency in the appeal to the Supreme Court, offered a few obiter dicta on the decision...
...gently, often ironically, what they really mean and what emotions within are contending with the sham of their spoken words. It has been Miss Parish's distinct triumph that she has accomplished this largely within the speeches of of the characters themselves, and has not resorted to tedious obiter dicta. Futhermore, she has decorated their halting or dissembling utterances with the impressionistic detail that filled their minds at the time,--the flowers on the table, a wide sweep of countryside, the pattern of a garden path, the set of a face; and by taking appropriate moments to repeat or contrast...
...Executive Committee of the Communist International in Moscow on the same subject; 4) reports on the activities of Chicago Communists among their comrades in Mexico; and other Reds' emanations. Mr. Kellogg had nothing to prove that the Mexican government took any part in the Red plot. His obiter dicta gave the press an opportunity to drag out war scare headlines and touched off some frenzied speeches in Congress...
...there is opinion in the news columns and facts in the editorial pages is "college education, is it it a good thing?" Every manufacturer of cheap automobiles, every successful chorus girl who has been promoted to the spotlight, and now the world's richest, straphanger feel capable of Litter dicta upon this universal topic...
...provoked, the better. But there are these to whom a siesta of American labor agitation would not seem so salutary as it does no Mr. Gary. They are the people to whom the Passable strike is a revelation They are concerned in Mr. Gary's later and more controversial dicta...