Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This statute has been made the text of several articles criticizing Congress and other law making bodies, but such criticism is based on a misunderstanding of the law, and is a disservice to the public by creating the false impression that our law making bodies regarding, or frequently pass ridiculous legislation. OLIVER G. BAILEY Cincinnati, Ohio Texas...
...Volstead Act, which specifically permits the manufacture of "non-intoxicating cider and fruit juice" for home use. Last week at Richmond the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the conviction, sent Sam Picalas and his elderberry wine back to West Virginia for retrial, with orders that a jury pass on whether or not this beverage was intoxicating in fact...
...living turtles weighing 200 or 300 Ibs. apiece brought up from the Caribbean to make a special brand of soup that retails for $2 a quart, see the 50 women who do what no machines can do (peel onions all day long), see the five soup tasters who together pass on every brew?the word of any one of whom is enough to damn a whole batch to destruction...
Half Marriage (RKO). After several reels of almost continuous kissing, Olive Borden is faced with a moment when the bad fellow who has been trying to get her away from her husband chases her up to the roof, makes a pass at her, falls over the edge, is killed. She wants to take the blame, and her husband wants to take the blame. The worst of it is that she has to explain to her father, who is a billionaire, that she is married. She had kept this a secret all the time and lived in her own house. Only...
...casual observer a dance hall is an upstairs place in a side street where the patrons stroll aimlessly about a railed-in hardwood floor, waiting for unknown partners to appear. For 10? they may pass the rail and dance for five minutes under red-lidded lights. A strong man supervises, sees there is no disturbance...