Word: holmesing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Supreme Court met last week, Associate Justice Willis Van Deventer appeared with his arm in a sling as the result of rheumatism. Associate Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis did not appear at all because of a bad cold. Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes got to his seat on the...
Late that afternoon in his own office at the Capitol, Mr. Justice Holmes closed his books, put away his papers and remarked to his clerks: "I won't be in tomorrow." Then he went home to write a letter to President Hoover. The letter:
Oliver Wendell Holmes."
O. W. Holmes."
Famed though Mr. Justice Holmes is for the liberalism of his judicial thought, for his vigorous dissents from majority opinions, for his literary grace and phrasemaking, it is likely that he will be remembered longest as a great abstract thinker, a philosopher who practiced his profession under the guise of...