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...contend, he merely adds his measure to qualities of which this world has never had enough. Loyalty is a favorite word in our vocabularies. It is a luminous word, direct and simple. May we pledge it anew to the cause of those quiet friends who have helped us to interpret and define its meaning...
...able to formulate legislation and to interpret legal language...
...following testament: "I give everything to my wife, Mary Doe, in the event of my death and appoint her my executrix." No such simple will was one which a Philadelphia lawyer named Solomon L. Fridenberg brought before Surrogate James A. Delehanty last week in Manhattan and asked him to interpret. Lawyer Fridenberg admitted he had drawn the seven-page closely-written document with five codicils for a client, since deceased. What he wanted to know from the Surrogate was: Did the will create trusts or did it grant annuities? Reading the will put Surrogate Delehanty in fine rhetorical fettle. Said...
When Crawford Burton, who is a stockbroker when not riding, showed up next day at the New York Stock Exchange, he found that its notoriously prurient members had so chosen to interpret his picture. When Mr. Burton entered the Exchange smoking room, he said that scores of brokers began to brandish copies of Collier's (one of the first publications to receive and print the advertisement) and set up such a gibbering that he could execute no orders, went home to seclude himself for days...
...long ministry and professorship were marked by two outstanding contributions to the University. With the abolition of compulsory attendance at Morning Prayers in 1886 and his appointment as Plummer Professor it fell to him to interpret and administer the policy of complete freedom in religious worship. In this task he was vigorously supported by President Eliot, Phillips Brooks, and by other members of the Board of Preachers. He was fond of saying that there was no such thing as a "compulsory prayer," and he derived great satisfaction from the fact that attendance at Morning Prayers, though availed of by comparatively...