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What prompted this onslaught upon the Supreme Court was the nomination of Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice, before the Senate for confirmation. Because his appointment was discussed under the Senate's new open-session rules, all the world could follow the bitter ebb and flow of debate which a year ago would have been secret. Likewise thrown aside was the taboo that the Supreme Court is sacrosanct and thus above criticism...
...they obeyed, aware that Brother Prajadhipok is, officially, King of Siam, of the North and of the South, and of all the Dependencies, of the Laotians, of the Malays, of the Karens, Descendant of the Great God Buddha, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother of the Moon, Half-brother of the Sun, Possessor of the Four and Twenty Golden Umbrellas...
LIFE'S EBB AND FLOW-Frances, Countess of Warwick-Morrow...
...dusky thing, far darker than he was-slim and sensitive . . . not smiling her face had a mute, apprehensive sadness." Yet to Ruth, as to all persons, Hazzard felt unfriendly, not only because he thought his lameness set him apart, but because all social feelings were at a very low ebb in him. He felt all alone when his mother died-alone and on the downgrade of despair, until Ruth, sacrificing their reputations and her job, went to keep house for him, to take up the work of making a doctor out of him. She succeeded with her ?1,000 legacy...
Like the sea's ebb and flow, the spirit of naval disarmament rises and falls with the coming and going of governments. Last week President Hoover sent it billowing up the beach of popular expectation with fresh momentum...