Word: opens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find anything in the article that suggests that an amendment, once proposed, is to be open to ratification for all time. ... Of the power of Congress, keeping within reasonable limits, to fix a definite period for the ratification we entertain no doubt...
Into the courts come infinite circumstantial variations of the common-law marriage, most of them confused in intent and darkened by deliberate secrecy. Courts generally hold that the good faith of one party sustains such a union, regardless of the mental reservations of the other. Promiscuity, neglect, cruelty, etc., open the door to legal separation as in any statutory marriage. The secrecy usual in a lover-mistress relationship prevents its becoming a common-law marriage unless time dispels the cloak and establishes public and personal acceptance of the union...
Three women went to the tomb on the first Easter Sunday. They were Mary Magdalene, Mary, sister of the Virgin and mother of the cousins of Christ. James and Joses, and Salome.* When they arrived the tomb was open. Mary, mother of James, saw an angel and Mary Magdalene saw two angels and saw and heard her Lord. The last miracle had not failed. The Pharisees soon heard the news they had feared: Christos kai apethane kai anesteh-Christ both died and rose...
Credulous editors printed the despatches at face value. Skeptical editors (and Kentucky editors were notably skeptical) reflected that the caves were about to open for the season, that tourist trade was desirable, that the alleged theft of Collins's body was singularly timely for publicity purposes...
...Miss Minor. The first article was met with a storm of criticism from Lincoln experts, who cried "Forgery!" after reading the documents quoted by Miss Minor. The second article brought still more protests fluttering to the desk of Editor Ellery Sedgwick. Editor Sedgwick, digesting the criticisms and keeping an open mind, published the third and last article. Most vehement among the critics of the Minor collection was Paul M. Angle, Executive Secretary of the Lincoln Centennial Association of Springfield, Ill., who admitted his delight at the opportunity to "put the magazine of the country in the frying pan and cook...