Word: frames
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statute which is challenged and to decide whether the latter squares with the former. . . . Every presumption is to be indulged in favor of faithful compliance by Congress with the mandates of the fundamental law. Courts are reluctant to adjudge any statute in contravention of them. But, under our frame of Government, no other place is provided where the citizen may be heard to urge that the law fails to conform to the limits set upon the use of a granted power...
...newly elected captain, Austie Harding of Noble and Greenough fame, the Harvard Freshman hockey team ran rough shod over the Newton High School sextet 10-2 at the Garden yesterday afternoon. Five goals, three of them in the last minute, were rung up by the Yardlings during the second frame...
...nothing, but when he had proved his paternity he went on to show his brotherhood by joining the workers fight against Boss Bayliss. Mario, the Filipino who had beaten Pete, was almost killed by vigilantes. But the organization he had started went on, through the hell & high water of frame-ups, terrorism, raids, arrests. The big strike came off as planned-but what its outcome will be Author Weatherwax leaves to the realistic reader. Her proletarian agonists are last seen marching bravely down the street to meet the bayonets of the National Guard, not yet forced to believe that bullets...
...their frame house 100 yards away from the Dafoe Hospital, Oliva and Elzire Dionne sulked, gazed glumly at a contract, as yet unsigned, by which they would get $700 in return for permission to let professional actors impersonate them. "I figured $700 wasn't enough," said the father of the Quintuplets...
...Strachey's witty and unexpected prose to establish convincingly the difference between the master's light touch and his own methodical, hard-working style. The sketch ends with an account of Maurois' meeting with Strachey: "On the first day we were alarmed by his tall, lanky frame, his long beard, his immobility, his silence; but when he spoke ... it was in delightful, economical epigrams. He listened to our daily discussions with a politely scornful indulgence. . . . Looking at him there, we had an impression of almost infinite disdain...