Word: riparian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agreed that he should kick, splash, yell, and raise all possible commotion but none of us would wish to be held responsible for giving such advice. Frankly, I should be willing to let the shark have the swimming hole, and I would raise no question of riparian privilege...
Close-mouthed artists refuse to say how much rent they pay for riparian rights to their small plots of sand. To the City they pay nothing for licenses. But they readily admit that they weekly net somewhere around $50 each, after rent and assistants' fees of $25. Most famed of the beach's seven oldtime artists is a barrel-chested, cow-eyed Calabrian named Dominick ("Nick") Spagnola who has sculptured next to the Steel Pier for 17 years. Self-taught, he pioneered floodlighting, cement statues, the personal sketch. Ten years ago, against his better artistic judgment, he installed...
...Supreme Court to stay the hand of New York. It was the State of New Jersey, fighting to save its stake in the now of the Delaware. Seeking an injunction against New York, its attorneys had pleaded for a strict application of the common law doctrine of riparian rights forbidding diversion from one watershed to another. But the Supreme Court, overruling this argument, decreed, in effect, that domestic municipal supply is the highest and most important use to which interstate water...