Word: jestingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard Law School's Story Professor of Law, T. Reed Powell, doubtless feels honored by your attributing to Mr. Justice Holmes Mr. Powell's sly jest as to Mr. Justice Butler's feelings about the procreation of imbeciles in perpetuity [TIME, Nov. 27]. Romantic legends certainly have gathered round Holmes's name; but even a casual reading of his opinion in Buck v. Bell and of Mr. Powell's digest thereof in his Police Power essays, published-as I recall-in the Virginia Law Review, will uncover the source of this...
...Justice Butler's enjoying this jest, those of us who have been exposed to Mr. Powell's pungent blasphemy doubt whether the Justice ever could have read anything written by the Professor...
None enjoyed this jest better than ponderous, granitic Roman Catholic Pierce Butler. The man who died alone in Washington's Garfield Memorial Hospital last week was as solid as arctic ice, but a friend to his friends, an honest foe to his foes, a tender father to his incurably ill daughter Margaret. Legends accumulated around softer men, not around Pierce Butler-except about his enthusiastic, notorious golf (he never broke 110), which he endured with almost masochistic resignation...
...back with nostalgia on the years when he was editor of the Socialist New York Call, from 1916 until 1922. He likes to thumb through old files of the Call, reread Eugene Debs's daily letters from prison, smile at advertisements announcing John and Lionel Barrymore in The Jest, cluck his tongue appreciatively at some of the best news reporting of another troubled...