Word: tempts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jury in another court. Added Douglas and Frankfurter: "One who reads the record . . . will have difficulty in determining whether members of the bar conspired to drive a judge from the bench, or whether the judge used the authority of the bench to whipsaw the lawyers, to talk and tempt them, and to create for himself the role of the persecuted...
...Lady Poltagrue, a Public Peril The Devil, having nothing else to do, Went off to tempt My Lady Poltagrue...
...declare only a tiny fraction of their true incomes; the government in return automatically triples whatever declaration the taxpayer makes. This year, at the urging of U.S. Marshall Plan officials, the government decided to reform all that. Under the new tax law, filled with all kinds of clauses to tempt the taxpayer to be honest, income tax blanks went on sale (another curious Italian custom) in the nation's tobacco shops at 25 lire (4?) each. But last week, when tax returns fell due, the mice couldn't get at the cheese. Speculators had bought up the whole...
Three designers, including Broadway's Irene (The King and I) Sharaff, fill An American in Paris with costumes which, like the rest of the movie, score as high in imagination as in lavishness. Notable example: the costumes for a tumultuous Beaux Arts Ball, which would tempt most moviemakers into a rainbow splurge, are all black & white. The effect, striking in itself, is the perfect aperitif for the banquet of color that follows in the ballet...
...Anderson for Steve Hedberg at the five oar. The switch originally came about not because Bolles was attempting any mid-season masterminding, but because Hedberg had to take a medical aptitude exam. The crew has performed excellently with Anderson at five, however, and Bolles sees no reason to tempt fate by returning Hedberg, despite the fact that the crew's improvement since Anderson came in could be coincidence. As Bolles puts it, "You don't have time to monkey around with boatings at this time of the year...