Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From 1894 to 1908, betting on New York horse races was legal under State law. In 1908 Charles Evans Hughes as a reform Governor outlawed racetrack bets with a statute which also denied betters the right to sue to collect winnings. By 1912, since racing cannot flourish without gambling, a turf track on the golf course of Long Island's Piping Rock Club was the only one functioning in the State. Year later a test case uncovered a loophole in the Hughes law. It was legal for betters to deposit money with a bookmaker before...
...sentimental and legal reasons, tiny Penzance was chosen for the first performance of The Pirates of Penzance. Cairo got the opening of Aida to christen its new opera house. For no particular reason at all, Dallas, Tex. was the scene last week of a world premiere of a play by George Bernard Shaw...
...Chambon & friend was dumped by pailfulls in the garden. Next morning Georges Sarret poked about with a stick and carefully picked out a few gold fillings, one gold crown, six flattened bullets. Thanks to Georges Sarret's legal knowledge, the trial dragged on month after month. Finally last October he was condemned to death, the Schmidt sisters to ten years at hard labor. And so last week he went to meet Mme Guillotine before the Town Hall of Aix-en-Provence. The end of drama was not yet. Strapped quickly to the board, he was pushed beneath the knife...
...worse confounded without annoying anybody. When the parish he had always pined for fell vacant he refused to apply, because he thought another man should have the post, but he gave himself the satisfaction of nearly applying. He appeared at the registrar's office and at the last legal minute lowered his papers till they nearly touched the table, then took them up again. Curmudgeonly Agrippa Prastberg lived on a raft, once a year ruined the Lagerlöfs' kitchen clock by "regulating"' it. When mischievous urchins daubed his floating home with paint, he showed his resentment...
...which did no good. Next his bedroom slippers were taken from him, in the hope that he would not venture forth barefoot. This was equally ineffective. The nurses then went into a huddle--and the patient was deprived of his bathrobe and the lower half of his pajamas. Even legal knowledge failed to cover this subject, and the patient was permanently confined to his bed--cans his Chesterfield...