Word: invalided
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...Council has helped do this by spiking the argument against the Associate Plan that it would overcrowd facilities. More generally, the House Masters must realize that their most potent contention against both the Junior-Senior Admission and the Associate Plans, that these will destroy House spirit, is woefully invalid. House spirit is ephemeral and amorphous to the point of not deserving consideration when greater human values are at stake...
...Earnest (by Oscar Wilde; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers) is 44 years old, and looks it. In a way this is a compliment, for most farces of 44 look twice their age. In Wilde's long stage joke of what happens when one young man invents an invalid friend and another young man invents a dissolute brother, there are still pleasant stretches. Lady Bracknell, "a monster without being a myth," is still an amusing snob. Miss Prism is still a funny old maid. And Wilde is still the most brilliant epigrammatist in the modern theatre, though for sustained...
...Eleven rebellious locals were expelled by T. W. O. C., which sued to take over their funds. To Sidney Hillman's surprise and discomfort, Superior Court Judge Charles A. Walsh held last month that the contract whereby U. T. W. officers signed away their union was invalid, because the members did not have a chance to vote...
...title of Kaufman & Hart's The Fabulous Invalid refers to the theatre, always said to be dying, never quite dead. But so many people have avoided the show, thinking it a "morbid" play laid in a sickroom, that it is now conspicuously subtitled "A Cavalcade of the Theatre...
...Judge Slick's decision is complicated by the fact that General Motors refused to make terms with the Department of Justice and its suit will therefore be prosecuted shortly. Smart Ford and Chrysler lawyers stipulated in their consent decrees that if General Motors wins the decrees are invalid, since General Motors would then have a competitive advantage...