Word: mum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if Yarbrough is disbarred, can he be kept off the bench? The state constitution requires only that a supreme court justice be 35 years old and have been a lawyer for ten years; it is mum on whether a justice must be an attorney when he takes his seat. Only the Texas supreme court itself can sort the matter out. Some Texas lawyers are hoping that the question will never arise. Efforts are under way to find a write-in candidate who can beat Yarbrough in the November election. It will be a long shot. A write...
...related by the blood of others. Pa is Valentine Hood, a former U.S. State Department employee cashiered for punching an official of the South Vietnamese government. Filled with hatred, he stays high on opium and waits for a call to action from the provisional wing of the I.R.A. Mum is Mayo, who has ties to the Provos, a callow sense of Realpolitik and a Flemish masterpiece that she stole from a London museum. The kiddies are Murf, an idiot savant at wiring up explosives, and his girl friend Brodie, a pert little simpleton who totes bombs to their destinations...
...anyone managed to surmount these natural obstacles, there would be little enough to spy on. Mum might be cooking up a batch of her special pea soup (secret ingredient: sea salt), Dad might be settled back with some favorite reading material-science-fiction novels and comics, mostly. The whole family could be gathered around the table, enjoying a favorite meal of eggs and chips and larking about, hitting Dad for "requests"-everything from That Doggy in the Window to songs composed on the spot, to order, for whatever child does the asking. Dad may be working on the score...
...court appearance last month, pleading "Not Guilty," and the court appointed a psychiatrist to examine him. Pretrial motions are in the offing, and Spiro-watchers are betting on a temporary insanity plea. No one knows for sure, of course, because his lawyer William P. Homans '41 is mum on the question...
Drastic Love. Most of the stories here revolve around fussy, aging bachelors. The men are, as one tart-tongued female claims, typically Irish victims of "the whole monstrous regiment of wom en from Old Mother Hubbard, and Old Mother Goose, and Holy Mum the Church, down to Mother Ireland and your own dear departed and long-suffering Mother Machree." Thus in Mur der at Cobbler's Hulk, a retired travel agent lives in fastidious loneliness near a remote village. A woman attacks his prim self-sufficiency. "No love. No drink. No friends. No wife. No children. Happy man! Nothing...