Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year's trip was free from derailments, cows on the track, which last year delighted and delayed the enthusiasts. Only disturbing note was a rumor that the tracks above Readsboro might be torn...
Fourteen years ago, President Warren Gamaliel Harding received a letter saying: "I shall be 65 years old the 18th of the month. For a long time I have promised what I think is my better self that at that age I would free myself as much as possible from imperative duties to the end that I may have time to read many books which I have not had time to read in a busy life, to travel and to serve my neighbors and some public causes. ... As a beginning ... I hereby resign...
...first time in several hundred years, local Ipswich members of the bar were denied free access to the courtroom and the Mayor, who is himself an Ipswich magistrate, was admitted only after arguing with his own police. In English divorce proceedings the wife, when examined by the Court, must stand in the witness box, which has no chair. Last week matters had been so arranged that all courtroom gallery seats faced by Mrs. Simpson from the box were vacant. Tickets were issued only for a few seats to which her back was turned...
...Quartermaine's Jaques, were played in a more subdued key. To give the screen version a scope that no stage production can hope to match, he allowed Set Designer Lazare Meersom, whose work U. S. audiences have heretofore seen only in French pictures like Carnival in Flanders, a free hand. Brilliantly matched with the glittering poetry of the play are its rich backgrounds-huge dark trees in Arden forest, the barnyard where Orlando and his brother wrestle, the sweep of marble stairs above Duke Frederick's garden...
...railroadmen want all the business they can get. Last January, in an attempt to recoup, railroads in the West and Southwest got Interstate Commerce Commission approval for a "store-to-door" service. At both ends of the rail haul the roads furnished trucks to pick up or deliver freight free. There was no effective opposition to the plan. Last April the major Eastern roads started to follow suit. But on the day the new service was to begin, so loud were truckmen's howls that the I. C. C. hastily suspended permission (TIME, April...