Word: trespasser
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Lest the damned bridegroom should trespass into the church itself, it was roped off. But ropes were quickly lowered to facilitate the exit from the Church of a Most Catholic wedding guest, Her Royal Highness, Marguerite de MacMahon, Duchesse de Magenta, nee Princesse d'Orleans, sister of the Pretender to the Throne of France. Apparently the Princess had blundered into the Church, looking for the wedding, which she later attended in the Vestry...
President Walter Sherman Gifford of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. summed up the results of the decision: "We are disappointed . . . but it will not make any change in our policy. . . . Tap ping or otherwise tampering with telephone lines is an unlawful trespass upon the property of the companies which they will continue to resist. ... An act of Congress, such as the Chief Justice refers to, would exclude evidence obtained by government agents in this...
...loud, strong, was raised. It belonged to burly Thomas Williams Slocum, 61, textile potentate, sportsman, clubman, orator, onetime (1924-27) president of the Harvard Club of Manhattan. He was a big man in his class at Harvard (1890), but not a P. B. K. man. His dissent, entitled "Fools Trespass When Angels Keep Off the Grass," appearing in the Harvard Advocate, did not bother with statistics. He did not try to prove ; he knew. ' He simply wielded his own bludgeon: "The Phi Beta Kappa men have apparently disappeared, and those who gave little promise in their studies at college...
...been pretty triumphant lately, what with Dean's prizes and English literature sweepstakes, and all--to the low estate of the athlete. The unfortunate fact is that to attack either is the very height of unsportsmanlike penplay, for both are recumbent antagonists. Under the sufficient title "Fools Trespass Where Angeles Keep Off the Grass" Mr. Slocum has chosen to defend the outside activity from the snares of scholarship, as symbolized in the man who, according to him, never wears a wristwatch...
After the wedding, however, as the groom started to carve the wedding cake, eight late arrivals at Grande Anse pushed up even closer than they had dared trespass during the service itself. They were camera and cinema men with but one duty in the world, to photograph as far as they could...