Word: lawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when few even try to paint deep space, he has painted it so well as to bring even the most reluctant viewer straight inside the picture. In the foreground, like a sunny signature he has put his own self-portrait with his wife, daughter an grandmother-in-law...
...both manners born, in New York City's fashionable Gramercy Park area of the 1880s. His wealthy banker father financed Pacific whaling fleets, invested in coal mines; his cousin was the New York Sun's famed editor-owner. Young Dana was three years out of Columbia law when he became an assistant prosecutor (under William Travers Jerome) in the sensational 1907 trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Architect Stanford White. It led him into the state legislature as a three-term Republican. A strenuous-life aristocrat in the T.R. style, Lawyer Dana was an off-hours...
When Florida's Stetson University matched his $250,000 for a law-school library, Dana was in business. Since, he has given $200,000 to Georgia's Berry College toward a new dormitory, $150,000 to North Carolina's Guilford College for its extension school, $350,000 to Connecticut's University of Bridgeport toward a science building. His object is to meet each school's crying need-halfway...
...wanted to get married-just about anybody would have done. I'd even thought of marrying Jessel." She finally married Martin A. May, nine years her senior, the son of a wealthy ranching family. It was an alliance that seemed eccentric even for Hollywood. Martin was studying law when he met Anne (after five failures at the bar exam, he gave up the effort). He wanted to keep the marriage a secret until he could tell his mother in person; the newlyweds moved into separate apartments, which they occupied for six months. Her husband always slept with a loaded...
...doubt that in the whole of our canon law there is a more complicated canon than this," wrote Bishop Pike in an eleven-page letter to the clergy of his diocese. Canon 36 provides for the ordination of a minister whose previous ordination may be doubtfully authentic, or who wishes to be a minister in the Protestant Episcopal Church without losing his membership in another denomination, or (as in Hedley's case) who intends to remain a minister and function as such in his original denomination...