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...Ireland's famous Easter Rising of 1916. MacBride's mother was the legendary Maud Gonne, heroine of Ireland's revolt and of Poet W. B. Yeats, who called her "a phoenix in my youth." MacBride spent his own youth bombing British armored cars, commanded the outlaw Irish Republican Army while studying and practicing law in the 1930s. A top Dublin barrister, he later became Ireland's Minister of External Affairs...
Fadden also proposed a rule change: outlaw the high-arm block. A blocker can ram his forearm or elbow into an opponent's face despite the protection of the mask. Cage masks which leave no opening wide enough for an elbow are fine for linemen, but backs, who need more visibility, are forced to use the conventional double or single bar variety. If high-arm blocking were illegal, Fadden believes that there would be no need for the face mask...
...lawyers pleaded for the application of "judicial remedies against the carnage that is today occurring" throughout the state. As things stand, they said, "the Negro seeking his civil rights and liberties and the fulfillment of his status as a citizen and a human being has become a virtual outlaw in Mississippi...
Anatomical Outlaw. For a while, Bonnard was a flaneur and sketcher of Paris street life. Lithography, with its kinship to line drawing and its inherent limits of only a few undifferentiated colors, was Bonnard's proving ground. He embellished sheet music and illustrated the writings of Verlaine, Octave Mirbeau and Andre Gide. The flat stone's print only confirmed him as an outlaw toward perspective, modeling and rigorous anatomy...
Other laws already passed by the legislature would prevent picketing; deter boycotts (maximum fine, $500, maximum sentence, six months); outlaw "false statements" to federal authorities concerning the denial of constitutional rights ($1000 and/or 5 years); permit towns to set curfews; and allow an enlarged state highway patrol to suppress "mob violence, intimidation, and terror" whether the local government requests...