Word: forbidding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...penetrate the recesses of your obtuse reuses, then consider but the economic aspect. Have you no hearts? Would'st rob our struggling instructors in French and German of their sole means of livelihood? Vision a typical pathetic case it your diabolical propaganda were allowed to take root, which God forbid...
Chief Justice William Howard Taft read the decision and was supported by Associate Justices McReynolds, Sanford, Sutherland, Van Devanter. He upheld the use of wiretapping evidence, said: "The United States takes no such care of telegraph or telephone messages as of mailed sealed letters. The amendment does not forbid what was done here. There was no searching. The evidence was secured by the use of the sense of hearing and that only. There was no entry of the houses or offices of the defendants. The language of the amendment cannot be extended and expanded to include telephone wires reaching...
...find the door of his office rudely slammed in his face. But this last independence of the candidate has never been tampered with; his privilege of saying anything or nothing has always stood; and if he has recently preferred to say nothing, who has there been to forbid him? Even this right is at last being undermined; and, although no one troubles himself to answer the inquisitive Congressmen, there must be a little stir of uneasiness, foreboding the time when the voters themselves may ask this sort of question, and expect to be answered...
...Forbid the batsman to step out of the batter's box in order to disconcert the pitcher...
...Forbid the useless throwing of the ball in order to discolor it or to help the pitcher to recover his poise...