Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nominate Secretary of State Cordell Hull Man of the Year. Last year's reason, namely, that he is America's most substantial hope for peace, has been amply affirmed in the past twelve months. And in these months an equally cogent reason has become apparent. Mr. Hull, through his devotion to the President and to the nation, has proved himself the most heroically unselfish, able, and effectual diplomatist practicing in the world today...
...Manhattan the 88th birthday of the late Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was celebrated by proxy by Mrs. Annie Ide Cockran, who has had full and undisputed right to Stevenson's birthday (November 13) for 47 years. Reason: in 1891 her father, General Henry Clay Ide, U. S. Land Commissioner in Samoa, told his great & good friend Stevenson that his small daughter Annie always felt aggrieved because her birthday fell on December 25. Straightway Author Stevenson drew up, signed, had witnessed a document transferring to her all the rights & privileges...
...Reason for this ghoulish hocus-pocus was that a minor Elizabethan historian of doubtful veracity once wrote that when Spenser was buried, a cluster of poets, including Shakespeare, placed poems in their own handwriting in his grave. For 20 years the Baconian Society has been pleading to have the grave examined, arguing that comparison of the handwriting of the poems would prove once & for all that it was Bacon who wrote Shakespeare...
...Cessante ratione, cessat ipsa lex" is a learned and Latin way of saying that when the reason for a law ceases to exist, the law itself dies with it. And to a distinguished professor up at the Law School, this little tag strikes at the very root of the legal system. In fact, it is reliably reported that this jurist injects the quotation at least four times into each of the profound and erudite dissertations he hurls at his disciples Mondays through Thursdays...
...recent Monday, however, the man of law delivered himself of a monologue that was at once scintillating and side-splitting, leaving his class a little puzzled till they found the reason, an anonymous poem left on the professor's desk just before the lecture...