Word: edicted
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...will breathe more freely, and so, one imagines, will the laboring pianist who plays the Wedding March during the death of the heroine. But for those children of Old Nassau--past, present, and future--for whom the rolling smoke cloud has been both a memory and a promise, the edict means the snapping of one more link in the connecting chain...
Hell!" In response to an edict of The Faith Tabernacle, the entire sect has refused the services of local physicians; medical science is barred from the homes of all its members. The local health authorities have quarantined both the Tabernacle itself (a $60,000 brick structure), and the homes of nine families. Legal action has been started on the count that they disobeyed the State law in not having their children vaccinated before school age. Alderman Miller: "I am sorry that I can merely hold Winterborne for court on the State charge ... I consider his action in advising the people...
...result of the edict issued by Police Station 1 of Cambridge, that regulations regarding parking would be rigidly enforced, over 40 students found their cars tagged yesterday morning for failure to observe the rules...
When the Tiger hockey team appears on the ice next year, they will be equipped with leather headguards according to an edict just issued by the Chairman of the Athletic Board of Control at Princeton. The series of injuries about the head, culminating this year with the death of Reeves, star freshman player, has caused this definite action to be taken on the matter...
Sammy Bohne, second baseman of the Cincinnati National League baseball team, "only Jew in the major leagues": "In the Superior Court of San Francisco I filed application that my name, which is really Cohen, be changed to Bohne by legal edict...