Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quick-witted English girl of the fox-hunting type, a person whom the spectator recognizes as someone revealed for the first time, yet who has always been known to everybody. She is answering her judges at a moment when she is forced to renounce either her life or her faith...
...chagrined to learn that they had overlooked a report published in the American Israelite 21 years ago. The late G. Deutsch, doctor of philosophy, then wrote: "The Prayer of Maimonides, so called, was written neither by Maimonides nor by any other medieval physician. It is the work in good faith of a modern Jewish doctor, Marcus Hertz of Berlin (1747-1803), the friend and physician of Moses Mendelssohn.* It was written in German and was translated into Hebrew. . . ." And from Hebrew back into modern languages...
...decreed who shall be competent to marry, what persons shall be competent to perform marriage ceremonies. These laws are generally considered directory, not mandatory, and a marriage outside the statutory law−i.e., under common or unwritten law−is by implication a legal exception, quite valid if the faith and intent behind the contract are good. Common-law marriages are recognized by the courts of most of the older States east of the Mississippi. Some of the newer States by statute expressly prohibit such unions. No nonstatutory marriage can be positively stamped as valid until its special circumstances have...
Into the courts come infinite circumstantial variations of the common-law marriage, most of them confused in intent and darkened by deliberate secrecy. Courts generally hold that the good faith of one party sustains such a union, regardless of the mental reservations of the other. Promiscuity, neglect, cruelty, etc., open the door to legal separation as in any statutory marriage. The secrecy usual in a lover-mistress relationship prevents its becoming a common-law marriage unless time dispels the cloak and establishes public and personal acceptance of the union...
...mass, his proofs were overwhelming; and he bluntly asserted: "By no possibility can the Minor collection be genuine." Who forged the papers, and when, is unknown; but the good faith of the present owner has not been questioned...