Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David Fisher Parry...
Engaged. George Fisher Baker 3rd, banker son of the late great banker son of the late great banker; to Frances Drexel Munn, Philadelphia socialite, descendant of Biddies, Drexels, Astors, Munns; in Palm Beach...
...David Fisher Parry...
Although the Holmes precedent compelled Judge Harry M. Fisher to deny Mrs. Smith's claim, he advised her to appeal to higher courts, because: "I think, personally, that Justice Holmes was wrong. . . . The law elsewhere recognizes an unborn child as an individual. A woman who causes an abortion upon herself, or a doctor who performs such an operation can be charged with manslaughter-the unlawful killing of a human being...
...anonymous writing, individual passages stick in the memory: the description of industrial Lawrence, Mass., of the slums of Washington, D. C. that lie within sight of the Capitol; the list of Whitmanesque place names-Corncake Inlet, Money Island, Frying Pan Shoals-in The Intercoastal Waterway; the account of Fort Fisher, in the same volume, where the sea, nibbling away at the old Confederate breastworks, occasionally washes up the skeleton of a soldier...