Word: outlanders
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...circle so that international law was excluded, excluded as an inhabitant of that legal periphery more closely related to public ethics than to law. Anyone who has examined, with whatever percipience, the history of the League must commend Dicey's distinction as well drawn. For the kind of legal outland which it described is very close to Geneva; a legal outland in which all must be trusted to the arbitrary will of the individual, to the sovereignty of an irresponsible and independent group which is nothing more than a congress of victory. To such a group the sanctions...
Without world union, which would reproduce internationally the national structure essential to the rule of law, the League must remain in this outland. Mr. Hitler must look to its rulers for its substance; and having done so, he is not reassured. To a mere club of public ethics this sincere patriot should not trust the destiny of a single Prussian grenadier, and the club itself should not expect him to do so. If war comes, Mr. Hitler will bear a heavy burden of guilt, but in that guilt we cannot include charges of contempt for an organization which weighs...
Manhattanites luxuriating last week where the weather was warm thanked the good fortune which enabled them to escape an influenza epidemic so severe, according to outland newspapers, that the Metropolitan Opera House had been forced to close...
...animals, little people-as hazards, direction posts, decoration. By long practice the people from Jacksonville learned to play Cinderella, to kill Red Riding Hood, to fool Little Miss Muffet. Of course, Chattanooga putters had practiced on the course a lot too, but they were rattled by competition with the outland contestants. Impulsive Chinese Grace Moy of Brooklyn arrived in her car late one evening and went right out to play. She was up early in the morning to play some more. Her scores were bad. She said: "If I don't break par this round I'll jump...
...have been haunted always by the Southern highlanders' need of a recorder. Being driven to frenzy by the futility of outland interpretation, I at last took up the work of their defense. To do this it has been necessary to make a long study of their idiom and the dialects from which it is compounded, and to reduce their grammar and syntax to a definite working scheme...