Word: gavelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blocked similar measures by raising a point of order, declaring that Prohibition is not the Legion's business. This time National Commander Ralph T. O'Neil from the bone-Dry State of Kansas was prepared. Banging on the Legion's miniature Liberty Bell with his gavel, said he: "Anticipating that question I have asked the [Legion's] National Judge Advocate [Scott W. Lucas] to advise me whether, in his opinion, the introduction of this subject would be in violation of our constitution. He advises that it is not. I agree. "Personally." added Kansan O'Neil...
...father to buy the lot on which the clubhouse stands but Penrod's father buys it back again. The clubhouse is a cozy shanty, ornamented outside by a piece of tin, a portion of rubber-hose, furnished inside with barrels of paint, old packing boxes, a tin-gavel and a periscope made out of a broken mirror. Most enthusiastic members are two small blackamoors, Herman Washington (James Robinson) and Verman Washington (Robert Dandridge), who are so young & ignorant that they are unable to read the club regulations...
...refused to answer questions affecting Tammany officeholders. Boss Curry had telephoned Appellate Justice Henry L. Sherman, vacationing at Lake Placid, and induced him to hear a petition which resulted in a stay of Dr. Doyle's sentence. With much sparring by the witness and many a loud gavel rap by the committee chairman, the following colloquy between Inquisitor Seabury and Boss Curry occurred...
...spoke at the annual dinner of the Harvard Law Review, has just given the Law Review a present in appreciation of that banquet. The gift was a baton used in Boston in the Colonial days. This baton will be used at all future Law Review ceremonies as its official gavel...
Vice President Curtis' gavel cut off the Thomas filibuster just as the Senator was apologizing "to the Senate and the country" for taking so much time, and thanking everybody for their "courteous attention...