Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When meteors smack the earth's surface, they are called meteorites. Under their new citizenship, these celestial migrants are subject to earthly laws, even the law of supply & demand. So, at least, a rotund, retired dentist & amateur geologist last week tried to prove at Chatham, Ontario...
Friends of the sculptor and sponsors who have located the original small-scale model plan to get the City of Chicago and private contributors to put up some $5,000,000 for the reconstruction. Law forbids them to erect it on the grounds of the Capitol or the Library of Congress, and, thanks to an amendment by Congressman John Costello of Hollywood, they will not be able to set it down in the Tidal Basin, or in the reflecting pool before Lincoln's austere memorial. But there are lots of other conspicuous places in Washington...
...shrunk rapidly in recent years. He was down for five concerts, including two performances of a work from which he generates much heat, the Verdi Requiem, to be done in Lucerne's old Jesuit Church. Four concerts were to be broadcast, and Toscanini's son-in-law, Vladimir Horowitz, able pianist, was scheduled to make one of his rare concert appearances under the maestro. The other festival conductors were also extra-Axis: England's bald-pated Sir Adrian Boult, Switzerland's Ernest Ansermet, the late Weimar Republic's Bruno Walter (a Jew) and Fritz Busch...
...offended by the noisome proximity of a hog farm to his Montecito, Calif, estate that he complained he had to use smelling salts, well-nosed Maestro Leopold Antoni Stanislaw ("Stoky") Stokowski appealed to the law, had the hogs evicted...
...greengrocer. He had tried to kill himself. Doctors examined him, found a bullet was lodged below his heart. Only chance for Grocer Cardwell's recovery seemed to be an immediate operation to remove the bullet. At that point the patient spoke up. Under California's medical law, as he well knew, no doctor could operate without the patient's consent. And the patient would not consent. Said he: "If I don't die I will have it to do over again. I had more trouble than I could stand." Asked for an opinion, Attorney General Earl...