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Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth...
...that since the laws in question were passed by Legislatures, the additionally ticklish question of State rights was to be considered. Furthermore, the legislation under scrutiny was of an emergency nature. The court may balk when the time comes to pass on the more permanent legislation New Dealers want graven in the statute books...
...last resting places of Golfer Tom Morris and his son & namesake who between them won eight British Open titles between 1861 and 1873. There were more flowers for Allan Robertson, oldtime Scottish champion who died in 1859 secure in the knowledge that on his headstone would be graven the deathless words: FAR AND TRUE. This sentimental pilgrimage accomplished, Messrs. Dunlap, Goodman and Ouimet nipped back to the Royal & Ancient Club for some more practice. On that oldest and most formidable of courses, they and their six teammates were determined a week later to inter some live golfers, the British Walker...
...other field in the U. S., had been built by the Orleans Levee Board of which Col. Shushan, good friend of Senator Huey Long, is president. In gratitude for his loyalty Senator Long permitted the new field to be named for Col. Shushan. The name of Shushan was graven and imprinted no less than 3,200 times in stone, metal, tile and bronze...
Both Rao and Cleary, it soon developed, were animal lovers. Cleary had a police pup chained to his bed. The dog wore a harness on which was graven the name "Screw Hater" ("screw" = guard). The Irishman also had a cote of 100 pigeons in his dormitory. Rao maintained a flock of 200 more on top of the prison storage house. Also his criminal lackeys had built him a little fenced garden, with flowers, benches and a milch goat. Both Cleary and Rao had passes permitting them to roam the island at will...