Word: forfeits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small but distressing problem: the practice of confetti-throwing at weddings. Chief objection to it: it litters up the church. Rev. E. G. Hall, rector of Friern Barnet, thought he had found a way to control confetti. He would charge five shillings ($1.25) extra per wedding, to be forfeit should any confetti be thrown. At Hatneld, Herts., it was proposed to charge ten shillings. Pontificated Rev. Oscar Stanway, vicar of Claygate, Surrey: "Confetti-throwing is meaningless and messy!" Even worse, said he, is the prevalent practice of throwing imitation rose petals: they show up much more. "Never heard an argument...
...travelling expenses each year will as usual be included in the prize, which gives a two years' fellowship at the Academy in Rome. If the winner of the finals should marry before the conclusion of the term of his appointment, he must forfeit all privileges of the fellowship. Also any man receiving assistance during the competition will be disqualified. $50 prizes go to those given honorable mention in the finals, whose date is not yet definitely determined...
...Great Britain, host for the 1931 race by virtue of her 1929 victory, was bitterly accused of high-handedness by France and Italy (TIME, Sept. 22). First she demanded that the entry fee per plane be upped from 5,000 francs to 200,000 francs ($8,000) as a forfeit to be paid by any entrant failing to compete. That, it was explained, was to keep out defaulting publicity-seekers. Then the British Royal Aero Club insisted that France and Italy enter no less than three planes each -which finally they did. Last week, to the incalculable embarrassment...
...given Max Schmeling his tit's when Sharkey fouled him last June, stipulating then that he must sign within nine months to meet an opponent picked by them. They picked Jack Sharkey, ordered Schmeling, through his manager and proxy, Joe Jacobs, to sign with Sharkey at once or forfeit his title. Jacobs suggested that the Commission arrange for Sharkey to fight Stribling, the winner to meet Schmeling. Both fights, if the Commission consented, would have been staged in New York. Standing on his dignity, Big Jim Farley rejected these fights, revoked Schmeling's title as heavyweight champion...
...committee representing a number of learned societies) should prepare a list of institutions satisfactory in scholastic standing, freedom of teaching, security in professorial position. Institutions could be blacklisted for unwarranted dismissal of teachers or interference with freedom of speech; teachers who accepted positions in discredited institutions would forfeit membership in the Association...