Word: punishable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social leaders character and poise. To that end she kept a hawklike watch over their lives, both in & out of school, developing an organization and discipline rivalling West Point's. Each Chapin girl wears a uniform, light or dark green depending on her age. Student proctors note and punish such lapses from decorum as running on the stairs. Each day begins with prayer, hymns, the chorus-recitation of a Bible verse by the whole school. Banned on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are parties, theatres, the opera...
...feel talking pictures will provide a new branch of the law, being capable of producing both slander and libel at one and the same time. For instance if when Rasputin says 'Natasha, we are going to punish Paul, you and I,' she advances with a simpering smile one inference can be drawn, but if she shrinks back in obvious horror you might draw another inference altogether. I doubt if it is libel to say a woman was raped, because the usual definition of libel is something holding a person up to ridicule, hatred or contempt...
Does God send storms, earthquakes, or sickness upon people to punish them for their sins...
...spirits) as leading sources of revenue of the House of Brooke in Sarawak. The present Rajah, hard, suave, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke (grandnephew of Little Boy Brooke) boasts in the British Who's Who that he has "led several expeditions into the far interior of the country to punish head hunters" and "understands the management of natives." Last week Rajah Brooke sailed over to the great British Singapore Naval Base just opposite his realm and horned in on an exciting Conference of Admirals...
...Murdock is no more to blame than the rest of us. It would break our hearts if the authorities should punish Mr. Murdock. He was always kind to the children," said the dead child's mother. But Murdock was put under $1,500 bail, held for the grand jury on a charge of second-degree manslaughter on the strength of a report that he had not fed his bears for two days. When an autopsy disproved this he was cleared by a coroner's jury...