Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...favorable notices in less fashionable journals, for standards of criticism vary and what brings comment from Dorothy Parker and her playmates usually becomes the season's rage. Mr. Severance should not take offence--he should not even take $500,000. If he were to go to the corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty Fourth Street tomorrow, he would undoubtedly find people gazing intently at his tower "like a grain elevator", who had previously passed it by, ignorant of its artistic crudities, ignorant even of H. Craig Severance--but not ignorant of the New Yorker...
Double Jeopardy. In the case of Doras Herbert et al. v. the State of Louisiana, the Supreme Court ruled that a person who violates the prohibition laws can be prosecuted in both State and Federal courts for the same offense without violating the clause of the Fifth Amendment-forbidding double jeopardy. This clause says: "Nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life of limb." Justice Willis Van Devanter's opinion held that a person who manufactures intoxicating liquor "commits two distinct offenses, one against the United States...
...Five downs will be allowed each team in which to score. On fifth down offensive team must declare intention to kick...
Elbridge Thomas Gerry, 89, lawyer, author of articles on cruelty to children, and owner of a private library of 30,000 volumes, grandson of U. S. Vice-President (1812-14) Elbridge Gerry: "A fallow deer jumped over a 10-foot iron paling in front of my Fifth Avenue house and stood, with vain eyes and excited flanks, before my door. Captured by Policemen and idlers, it was removed to the Central Park Zoo, which reported that it was not one of theirs...
...gain on four plays within the shadow of the Harvard goal posts, Slagle dropped back and booted a drop kick which gave Princeton the 12 points taken as the final score right after the game. All the charts of the game show that the kick was made on the fifth down. which would nullify...