Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bare breeze riffled the three flags atop the nation's law factory. The air was mild and misty. Many people, spectators, workers, newsmen, scurried around the wide plazas. Big autos zipped back and forth importantly...
...customs and Prohibition laws are probably the ones most commonly broken by the general run of U.S. citizens. . . . Is a private citizen corrupt, who, by bribery or otherwise, tries to make or save money by breaking or evading the law...
...ordinary murderer but the ferocious, scowling Alcibiade Bebe, who last year assassinated a brother-in-law of smart little King Ahmed Zogu of Albania, finally came to trial last week, in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where his crime was committed...
...immediate dependency upon the University is the state legislature's. The senators and representatives expect the law school professors to draft laws and even to guarantee their authority...
...upset were the people of Massachusetts that they made a law. The next Quaker to land would get one ear lopped off. If he came back, off with the other ear! If yet again he returned, his tongue was to be pierced by a red-hot iron. These provisions failing, however, to deter the Quakers, presently the gibbet was invoked and four Quakers were hanged, one of them a woman...