Word: invaliding
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...Several "gold clause" cases in which holders of Liberty bonds, payable in "gold coin" but called up for redemption in "legal tender," contend that the redemption call was invalid and that the U. S. still owes them interest on the bonds...
...spoken to anybody for years, but Heidi soon made a playmate of him. It was terrible when Aunt Dete stole her one day, took her to Frankfurt to live in rich Herr Sesemann's house. After the snow and goats it was dismal doing lessons with invalid Klara Sesemann. (Marcia Mae Jones). Klara's mean governess, pointing her starchy cap at Sesemann, wanted Klara to stay sick, but Heidi's Christmas present to Herr Sesemann was the sight of Klara walking. The climax of the story concerns the somewhat frenzied efforts of Grandfather Kramer to get Heidi...
...written or oral agreements. This has been going on not merely for years but for generations, and usually not only the Japanese but also the Chinese refuse to divulge the texts. It was with reference to this enormous quantity of Oriental secret pledges, which the Occident regards as morally invalid because exacted under duress, that the Imperial Japanese Government last week issued the following urbane and reasoned 550 word official statement which would not deceive a Vermont woodchuck or a Georgia possum: "The present Sino-Japanese affair originated in an unwarranted attack by Chinese forces on Japanese garrison troops legitimately...
...Rightist Spain's stamps, which are simply labeled CORREOS (MAIL), some of which bear the portrait of Queen Isabella, were declared invalid by little Costa Rica this week, but are accepted in the rest of the postal union. *Besides the standard, pre-Revolution red-barred yellow flag of Spain and the flags of sympathetic Germany, Italy and Portugal, hotel? and public squares in Rightist Spain punctiliously display, to the astonishment of most patrons, the blue and white banner with the parrotlike bird of Guatemala...
Married. Don Alfonso, Count of Covadonga, 30, invalid onetime heir to the throne of Spain; to Marta Rocafort, handsome daughter of a Havana dentist; in Havana...