Word: shrift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plucked out the tacks, signed himself reversely Ulysses Hiram. But the registrar had him down as Ulysses Simpson Grant (an absent-minded senator had assumed the mother's maiden name) and refused him admittance without authorization from Washington. Ulysses, characteristically impatient of government red tape, made short shrift by changing his signature to U. S. Grant...
...Judge. Short shrift to irrelevancies and oily oratory featured Justice Jennings Bailey's conduct of the trial. Persons who believed Sinclair was guilty, predicted short shrift for Sinclair, because brisk, efficient Justice Bailey had examined the talesmen himself, and locked up the jury...