Word: nisi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mortuis nil nisi bonum...
While Mensheviks and Bolsheviks struggle for ascendancy, Professor Polezhayev (Nikolai Cherkassov) does not attempt to hide his sympathy for the Bolshevik minority, is boycotted by his students, backbitten by his colleagues, betrayed by Disciple Vorobiev (Otto Zhakov). To express his feelings the professor merely quotes Darwin: "Omne nisi discipulos" ("Heaven deliver me from pupils!"). Accused of being a German spy, he sits down to his birthday banquet alone with his wife...
...attention has been focused upon the diatribe in TIME, of March 29, directed against the memory of the late Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson, quite obviously written by one unfamiliar with the text of the old Latin proverb enjoining upon all persons of good breeding to de mortuis nil nisi bonum...
...possible, improbable that someone else may enter an intervention before April 27, the date on which Mrs. Simpson's decree nisi will otherwise become a final divorce. In messages reaching England last week the Duke of Windsor particularized his wedding plans, named a date early in May, expressed strong desire that the bridal car shall be chauffeured by George Laclbrook and guarded by Inspector David Storier of Scotland Yard. These two one-time constant attendants upon Edward and Mrs. Simpson made off to England as soon as they could and last week "were holding their ground. Candidate for honors...
...Merriman,* presiding in Court last week, fussed about, patiently searching for some peccadillo or infraction. A small one would testify to his conscientiousness and not impede dismissal of the intervention. Suddenly he fastened upon the fact that Mrs. Simpson, although she had a flat in London, got her decree nisi out at rural Ipswich. Last week the judge badgered her Empire-famed and highly paid counsel, Norman Birkett, K. C., upon this point...