Word: restfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...busy Senate housekeeper. Now that he is Vice President, with high official rank and no official cares except to listen to the Senate when it is sitting and to hope for the health of President Hoover, things are different. Last week he slipped off to Miami Beach to "rest" and really have fun, his first real spree in years...
Captain G. E. Donaghy '29, and Howard Whitmore '29 were not in uniform yesterday. Donaghy was taking a day of rest while Whitmore is out for a few days with a sore...
...quantity of punishment which should be inflicted is not the subject of accurate and equitable determination. In the last analysis it must rest with the legislature which ought to be responsive to the general will of the majority. The collective judgment of the majority as to the social menace of the conduct interdicted should control. But the question of whether punishment should be severe or not is as old as society. Beccaria writing in 1764 was strongly convinced that crimes are more effectively prevented by the certainty than by the severity of punishment...
Another criterion in a question such as this is the history of the practice of the legislative and executive branches of the government. As Chief Justice Marshall said in another instance, "It is conceived that a doubtful question...., if not put to rest by the practice of the government, ought to receive a considerable impression from that practice...
...trying to do the shimmy, before I'd even thought about it. But after the first minute or so, everything went wonderful and I seemed to have the audience right with me. They never fail to react when I give them that old Black Bottom or some of the rest of my stuff...