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...Ridgewood, N. J. not only denied that Brevoort had smoked but, having paid $1,200 for his son's tuition that year, he felt that since the boy was sent home in March he should get some money back. Tabor Academy explained that Father Hood had agreed to forfeit whatever money he had paid Tabor in the event his son should for any reason "sever his connection" with the school before the end of the year. As a gesture, Tabor gave back to Father Hood $100. Unsatisfied, Father Hood went to court, sued for the remaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Reasonable | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...behind them was something that could not be reached with fists, something huge and vague and sinister. He dodged that fight, paid his forfeit. Jack Dempsey was ready to fight last week because a dauntless little man with a brown mustache had come forward to champion him and thousands upon thousands of reputable New York businessmen who had been similarly terrorized and mulcted. The new champion was Thomas Edmund Dewey, 34, for 18 months the head and heart of New York City's famed Dewey racket investigation. Tweed to Walker, Ever since the State Legislature in 1853 stripped police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Fight Against Fear | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

These Ticket Books can only be used by the personal owner, and if anyone else uses the book it will be forfeit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNLIMITED QUANTITY OF FOOTBALL TICKETS OPEN TO HARVARD MEN | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

Lawson Little created his sensation last week by announcing that he had decided to forfeit his amateur standing in order to make an income of some $10,000 a year out of golf by an exhibition tour, appearances in cinema. Now 25, Little left Stanford last autumn without completing his senior year. Two months ago he married 1 8-year-old Dorothy Hurd of Chicago. His reason for last week's move: "You can't support a wife on gold medals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Masters at Augusta | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...Oyez, oyez, Edward Southwell Russell, Baron de Clifford, in the name of the King come forth and save you and your bail or else you forfeit your recognizance!" cried the Clerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Baronial Privilege | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

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