Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Humphrey's voice gets lower and his forehead furrows deeper as the trial pushes its way through an unusually accurate court-fight; he almost gets the guy off except for the last-ditch try of a suitably cynical district attorney who comes through for law-and-order with a witness-stand confession. The picture is populated with Bogart's standard collection of pool-sharks, fifty-year old newsboys named "Junior," and punch-drunk bartenders, but the big star is the camera, which pokes behind garbage cans, into alleyways, and peers around the courtroom with far more than usual perception...
...Extravagant Wife. Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's brilliant economic boss, was on hand for the OEEC talks. The U.S. Marshall Planners had told the European nations to get their financial houses in order, and Britain, once threatened with collapse, had done this better than any other. For this success, Sir Stafford praised his own brand of austerity, a controlled system of trade which combined high exports with low imports of consumer goods...
...order to carry out the principles of my religious faith, which is Hedonism, I am obliged to observe certain distary restrictions. For example, my religion requires me to cat filet mignon and devil's food cake with fudge frosting on Friday; to consume cocktails before and after each evening meal, and to abstain entirely from certain uninteresting foods, such as fish...
...State law which concerns this problem was written in 1928 and amended in 1947 to read in part: "No rule, regulation, order, ordinance, or by-law of a city or town hereafter made or promulgated relative to or in connection with . . . signs, lights, markings, signal systems or similar devices or parking meters on any was within its control, shall take effect until approved in writing by the Department of Public Works or be effective after said approval is revoked." The 1947 amendment merely placed "parking meters" after "similar devices...
...order to make sure the audience understands the plot, the explanatory prologue will be rendered in English...