Word: oyez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oyez, oyez, oyez!" will cry, for the first time since June, a dark, handsome, neatly morning-coated gentleman in the most august room in the national Capitol a few minutes after noon on the first Monday in October. "All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting. God save the United States and this Honorable Court...
...years it has been the custom of the crier to announce the approach of court as the Justices filed into the room and seated themselves. Then he would intone the traditional "oyez," admonishing all having business "before this honorable Court to draw near and give their attention, because this Court is now sitting...
Uncs., Occs., Specs., Ad Libs!--not to mention S L.As, Sp. Eds., section men, and all others who battle the high Cs of a Cantabrigian education--oyez! One speaks...