Word: roosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain, decided that clergymen of the Church of Ireland are still forbidden by law to sit in Britain's House of Commons, and liable to a fine of ?500 for each day they do so. The old Tory gesture of spite against Tooke had come home to roost. From the present Parliament, where divisions are too close for comfort, the council decision effectively banned a pulpitless Church of Ireland clergyman named J. G. MacManaway, who was recently elected Tory M.P. from West Belfast...
Both men were hired by McCall's able, shrewd Editor-Publisher Otis Lee Wiese, as part of his campaign to crowd the Ladies' Home Journal (circ. 4,200,000) off the roost as top-hen in the U.S. women's magazine field. By snatching Eleanor Roosevelt from the Journal (TIME, June 13, 1949), Wiese picked up 200,000 in circulation last year. Though still 500,000 behind the Journal, he expects to pick up more circulation by a shift in policy which Mich and Ehrlich will carry...
...Home to Roost. In Milwaukee, an electrician treated his son and 39 other boys to chicken dinners in a restaurant, paid the bill with $20 in cash and the worthless $120 check the restaurateur had given him in 1948 in payment for some electrical work...
...regulations of the U.S. Navy and of the U.S. Naval Academy reflect decades of service wisdom in facing up to all sorts of military situations. But the regulations have nothing explicit to say about what to do when a starling comes to roost on a second classman's shoulder in the middle of June Week ceremonies at Annapolis (see cut). That left the matter up to Drummer Peter F. H. Hughes of Chicago to work out for himself...
...state where it was hatched, the Charter of the United Nations fluttered home to roost last week. A California court of appeals used it to throw out a California law. The opinion, if upheld, might scatter confusion through the laws of the 48 states...