Word: facit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...games, playful mental feats, he is often to be found contorted on the floor, acting out some far-fetched pun.* Battling with a fellow commissioner on a point of law, he recently sent him a memorandum containing the following: "As Coke would have said, id est quod cursum equorum facit."† As a radical, Frank is not so uncompromising as shillelagh-artists like Corcoran, Old-Testament purists like Cohen, bouncers like Henderson. Least hardboiled, most likable of the New Dealers, he is nevertheless the most daring and original theorist among them...