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Attached was a ten-page legal opinion from Attorney General Brownell, documenting the constitutional principle of the separation of powers-a principle which gives to the executive branch the right to conduct its own business in its own domain without Congress forever peeping over the transom...
...short, Miami Story is just another gangstereotype-with one modern improvement. Mobster Flagg, a little Caesar who has abdicated in favor of law & order, gets evidence against his old friends with the latest thing in eavesdropping. Not content with keyhole-squint and transom-peer, with tape recorder or even wiretap. Flagg triumphantly secretes in the walls of the villain's office a complete closed-channel television transmitter...
...movies had been just a mental transom the public was half-tired of peeking through. The next day the movies were a gap in the mind's defenses through which a roaring lion leaped and landed in the delighted moviegoer's lap. Spears and guns threatened his head, spiders walked on his face, beautiful girls reached alluringly from the screen. Then, just when a man's guard was up, came a roar of sound from the balcony, and, caught from behind and before, he was yanked into the screen and taken for a thrilling ride...
Charlie Dunkley was the first to dub Red Grange the Galloping Ghost. And when Fighter King Levinsky was knocked out by Jack Dempsey, Dunkley was on hand to report Levinsky's famed explanation, "I was in a transom...
...Over-the-transom order (n.) : Unsolicited subscription or advertising order...