Word: staines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond knows no laws, nor of time, nor of space, nor of men; from this arise most of the numerous peccadillos which, from time to time, stain his fair name and reputation. He is not alone in this, for there was once a distinguished gentleman, known to all and sundry . . . but that, as Kipling says, is another story. Not that he has no interest in the vague and changing things which men call laws: the music of the spheres, and the glamour of the dusty night-court alike bewitch him. But the laws that govern men are most enticing. Horoscopes...
...Though he lisps, the tone and personality of General Balbo are pugnacious, virile, truculent. *Blackest stain on the reputation of Blackshirt Benito Mussolini is the widespread notion that he personally ordered the assassination of the multi-millionaire Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti, who was unquestionably done to Death by Fascists (TIME, June...
Amid spouting blood and socialite shrieks, Youth Melgar fled the church clutching his neck, and President Sanchez Cerro walked out of the church with a great red stain on his vest. "I require no assistance," said the President, "but rush Colonel Rodriguez to a hospital." The Colonel, chief of the President's Military Household had (it then became known) received in his right thigh a second shot fired by Youth Melgar while the President was drawing his pistol...
Counsellor-at-Law. Playwright Elmer Rice (born Reizenstein), was once a lawyer. He has now written a drama about a successful legal light named George Simon (Paul Muni). Mr. Simon, when the play begins, is sitting on top of the world but it so happens that he has a stain on his otherwise unblemished past. A kind man, he once framed testimony on behalf of a young fourth offender who would otherwise have gotten a life sentence in prison. An enemy of Lawyer Simon discovers this lapse, comes so close to ruining Lawyer Simon that Lawyer Simon is about...
...Bull Ineffabilis Deus of Pius IX. Rather too long to be quoted verbatim and in full, it runs substantially thus: "By the authority of Our Lord Jesus Christ ... we declare, pronounce and define" that the doctrine which holds the Blessed Virgin Mary to have been "preserved . . . immune from all stain of original sin, has been revealed by God, and is therefore to be firmly and constantly believed by all the faithful...