Word: forfeiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the case came up for trial, the Senator had gone on his journey with the Senate Committee (vide supra). The only charge lodged was resisting an officer. In absence, his bail was forfeit, and the case closed. In Maryland, his home state, Senator Weller was arrested, for failing to have Maryland license plates on his automobile. Instead he had District of Columbia plates. The District fee is $1; the Maryland...
...told them that before leaving France, he had been almost mobbed by hundreds of poor men and women who had invested money in Russian bonds, and who would never consent to forfeit them. The Ambassador continued...
Married. Princess Nobuko Kuni, sister of the Crown Princess Nogako of Japan, to one Kosei Sanjo, commoner ; in Tokio. To marry one below her in blood, she was obliged to forfeit her rank...
...most of this dope trade, having replaced the British as the foremost traffikers. This disingenuous attitude of quibbling over means of enforcement will not blind the world to the fact that Japan, while anxious to pretend cooperation with western nations in a humanitarian program, is at bottom unwilling to forfeit the commercial advantage which she draws from the continuance of the opium evil...
...story. Zamiel, the wild huntsman, a blackhearted, fire-eating demon, has in his power Kaspar, a forester in the service of Prince Ottokar of Bohemia. Kaspar is doomed to forfeit his soul to the wizard unless he can find another victim. As a candidate he picks the noble young hero, Max, who loves Agatha, daughter of the Prince's chief ranger, one Kuno. In the shooting contest which is to 'decide who is to be Kuno's successor, Kaspar, through Zamiel's magic, makes Max miss the target. Max despairs (very tunefully...