Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This expression of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes's alarm at the bulging group of quasi-judicial Federal agencies which take evidence, hand down decisions and generally fulfill functions formerly reserved to the courts insofar as they were performed at all was the most significant point in a speech he delivered before the American Law Institute last week. It was not, however the part of the Hughes speech which got the biggest headlines. This distinction was reserved for an apparently innocuous generalization: ". . . The prime necessity in making the judicial machinery work to the best advantage is the able...
...from song-starved critics. The show is hardly as good as all that though for the marriage of the season's most ethereal stage bride, Producer Wiman has provided a shimmering trousseau reputed to have cost $125,000; several wardrobefuls of beautiful bright clothes, a pile of lacy, hand-embroidered stage sets by Jo Mielziner, plenty of Rodgers silver tunes...
...feet long. Among Cajuns and Baratarians (descendants of Pirate Jean Lafitte's band of buccaneers) a pirogue is a family heirloom, the result of two or three years of painstaking labor. First the tree trunk is scooped out with a mattock and fire, then chipped with a hand-ax and machete, finally scraped with a piece of broken glass until it is as smooth as a wooden salad bowl...
...Stone-Age man is potbellied Tony Galento, Orange, N. J. bartender, who shrugs his chubby shoulders at the fancy art of boxing, scoffs at the modern mode of training. Tony Galento's fighting technique is amazingly simple: His attack is limited to one sweeping motion with his left hand; his defense takes care of itself...
...full and free preaching of the whole counsel of God." In the opening sermon, to which Baptists annually look forward as representing the very best tradition of Southern preaching, Dr. John Richard Sampey, retiring president, said: "An intelligent and convinced Baptist, with the New Testament in his hand, finds little to draw him toward a church which denies the competence of the individual soul to do business with God through Christ Jesus as the sole mediator. We cannot get the consent of our minds to surrender the freedom with which Jesus Christ has set us free, in order to unite...