Word: invalidity
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...consider the dissolution decree invalid," cried Speaker Goring, "because it was presented by a Government which the Reichstag has overthrown...
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...Oakland, Calif., firemen discovered they could not move Invalid P. J. Evans from his burning home. They covered him with a rubber sheet, supplied him with an oxygen tank to prevent suffocation, put out the fire...
...jours) were comparatively slight, attracted little attention, he was always taking notes for his Big Book, eventually filled 20 huge notebooks with material. After his beloved mother died in 1905, Proust retired from society, set to work in earnest. In his famed cork-lined (soundproof) room he lived, an invalid-recluse, for the remaining 17 years of his life, occasionally venturing out again into society to verify a point in his reminiscential writing, often summoning his fashionable friends to question them about so-&-so's gestures, the material of so-&-so's gown. He wrote mostly at night, with...
...traveling alone in a first-class compartment when the conductor said he wanted the compartment himself. When the newspaper woman ordered out the conductor he declared her ticket invalid, demanded payment and tried to seize her baggage. The young American woman defended her property with her fists and landed a straight left that knocked out the conductor. While he lay unconscious on the floor Miss Robinson completed a story on which she had been engaged and on her arrival at the station of Loges she handed him over to the police...