Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...played to packed houses for three months. James Timoney, part owner, is seriously considering putting the play in Madison Square Garden--and he could probably draw a full house. The most cruel punishment which could be desired for the manager of "The Drag" would be to enforce an edict forbidding newspapers to mention ill-smelling drama...
...Various Aspects of the Russian Emancipation Edict of 1861," Professor Langer, Harvard 6, History...
Into Chicago evenings last week, at ten, a phantom curfew tolled. There was, of course, no actual bell, no iron clapper to send austere waves of sound across the tranquility of the Loop. There was merely an edict-the police were to arrest all children under sixteen years of age whom they found on the streets, unaccompanied by adults, between the hours...
...done this thing? Did he want to make fat priests lean, and sadden lean ones by . packing them into streetcars ? "Fishers of men" ... how could they be fishers if they were bundled, like sardines, in busses, elevated railways? Or perhaps, thought parishioners, Bishop O'Connor in-tended his edict as a rebuke, perhaps the fathers had been over-zealous in their ministrations to the accelerator. Had they been gallopading? Driving with one hand ? Gas-hawking, road-hogging? Amazed that good Catholics could ask such well-nigh blasphemous questions, Bishop O'Connor made answer. For no such ribald reason...
...What edict of Augustus Caesar was last week put into effect...