Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voter does not signify the required number of candidates for each office, the votes cast by him for that office will be completely discarded. This rule has been made necessary to avoid possible errors in counting the votes for the divers candidates for each office...
...hold the annual meeting of the Grid Iron Club. It is the one occasion when they can all be good fellows together. The legislative lions are supposed to smile when the literary jackals poke good natured fun at their foibles and failures, and it is an iron clad rule that none of the guests' speeches shall appear in print. Heretics have whispered that the addresses would not be catastrophic if they were released. Certainly the privilege of mocking the mighty was not abused if the gleeful reports in the Sunday papers did the affair justice. The reading of them makes...
Through the waiving of the rule prohibiting the playing of more than 12 men, the third and even the fourth line University reserves was able to put on its skates and get into action. Four separate forward lines and two defense combinations were tried out in the course of the affair...
...Workers' Rule...
...cattle deserves credit for assisting the denouement, gets the Gaucho out of jail, rescues the city once more from the army of Ruiz the usurper and restores the mountain girl to the arms of her inamorata. Immediate marriage is in prospect as the projection machine stops buzzing. As a rule, the important thing in a Fairbanks picture is not the story or the settings which are, in this one, fairly weak and excellent respectively. The important thing is the stocky mercurial fellow who rides and jumps and fights (in this case using the South-American "bolas") with such irresistible nonchalance...