Word: pow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...club tournaments. The embryonic lawyer, gets all the laughs out of the arguments which he writes into his brief, no more nor less. These interclub debates are the laboratory work of the law student, and are carried on in high seriousness. A brief recently submitted by the famous Pow Wow Club, of which the following account is only the first page of ten, is studded with references to 38 bone fide cases in massive Langdell tomes...
...SUPREME COURT OF THE POW WOW LAW CLUB...
...movement with extreme circumspection. One day last week he set out soon after dawn to make a second visit to high, cool Castel Gandolfo, a Papal property in which most Romans expect Pius XI eventually to summer. As His Holiness whizzed along with his Master of Ceremonies suddenly POW !-a tire blew...
...BOOM! POW! CRASH! Every 15 minutes all night long bombs burst in Havana as token that the advertised Terrorist week against the Government of Gerardo Machado had commenced. Beyond breaking a great many windows and killing a three-year-old child, the bombs did little damage. When it comes to terror, horn-spectacled Dictator Machado is still more than a match for his opponents. Cursing, police reserves and ununiformed gangs of the dreaded Porra (secret police) poured out and went to work...
Another case of the quarter-finals of the Ames Competition will be tried this evening in the court-room of Langdell Hall at 8 o'clock. The plaintiff will be represented by the Jeremiah Smith Club, and the defendant by the Pow-Wow Club. Professor Calvert Magruder will sit as Chief Justice...