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...customary in French courts to employ the title "maitre," a term of respect...
Resolutions were passed to establish a country-wide network of Labor radio stations; to advise the British Government to employ union labor in building its new embassy in Washington...
...would suggest that any husband in such circumstances could employ with wrath-averting dignity the self-effacing answer Bassanio made to Portia's magnificent devotion of herself: "Madam, you have bereft me of all words."-Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene...
...aims was to make the Bookman "a friendly magazine" for readers, contributors and the writers whose books were criticized therein. For his friendliness, Mr. Farrar gained, among more just thanks, a reputation for "undue optimism." Said Mr. Farrar in his farewell: "Think of all the adjectives I can now employ! Where I have been accustomed to using 'great,' 'magnificent,' 'heart-rending,' I can now say 'bunk,' 'babbittry,' 'balderdash...
...Hyland, a subordinate to the other defendants, accepted their policy of silence. Thus out fell thieves and honest men prospered. The State's case rested chiefly upon the evidence of Harry Thomasson, who confessed that he and his brother had killed Mayor Adams, but had acted in the employ of Messrs. Birger and Newland. On the night of Dec. 12, 1926, Mr. Thomasson said, he and his brother drove up to the home of Mayor Adams in a car driven by Mr. Hyland. They rang Mr. Adams doorbell, shot and killed him when he opened the door. Another witness...