Word: invalided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General rejoicing broke out on all hands, and a new era in the peace of Europe was widely heralded. The German diehards, however, at once set on foot a scheme to have the ratification so laboriously achieved declared invalid by the Supreme Court of the Reich. Their contentions are: 1) The Constitution of the Reich provides that the Reichstag shall determine whether or not Germany shall go to war, and can be changed only by an amendment requiring a two-thirds majority of the Reichstag; 2) The measure passed last week would make the League and not the Reichstag...
...Arizona minimum wage law for women was tested in the case of an owner of two stores in Nogales who employed four women clerks at less than the $16 a week minimum wage established by law. The Arizona law was declared invalid, the decision being based on the Supreme Court's previous decision that the Minimum Wage Law of the District of Columbia was unconstitutional. Justice Brandeis dissented, and Justice Holmes gave his consent only on the grounds of the previous decision...
...invalid should pilfer...
...invalid, rich provender...
...Edmund was being congratulated and interviewed upon his golden wedding anniversary. An Oxonian newspaper reporter had shown ignorance of those same Pre-Raphaelites and of how he, Edmund Gosse, son of a penurious naturalist, had been "privately educated in Devonshire", had slaved over solemn religious tomes in his invalid mother's library, tutoring himself afterwards by. night when he was a young curator at the British Museum, until his scholarship and verses won him the friendship of Poets Swinburne and Rossetti, the comradeship of Robert Louis Stevenson, the hand of Painter Alma-Tadema's sister-in-law. Preposterous...