Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such a change in the Court set-up would have reverberations on the conduct of the state courts, which naturally take their cue from the example of the highest court, and this would be opening the way to vicious legislation. A great many persons do not understand that a large percentage of the laws which are voided are voided because of technical wording flaws or faulty draftsmanship on the part of the legislatures. It is the duty of courts to remedy these defects in the law, and any action which menaces this power is certainly undesirable at this time...
...once a month thought it his duty to deliver a sermon upon the terrors of hell, when he sternly dangled his congregation over the abyss; but being a humane man, he liked to finish on a gentler note. He used to conclude thus: 'Of course, my friends, ye understand that the Almighty is compelled to do things in His official capacity that He would scorn to do as a private individual.' "I am in the unfortunate position now of having no private capacity, but only an official one. I am unable to express my views upon any public...
...York by one day, she said, she had found their home in disorder, their two-months-old baby, Wallace Lindley, and his nurse both gone. Indicating that she believed by this time her husband and Baby Wallace were at large together, she sobbed: "I can't understand it. We have had our spats but they were never serious." Meanwhile the telephone call that had brought police cars humming to meet Truster Groves was traced to his sister, Mrs. Howard Burton, in Baltimore. Said she: "Just say it was a mistake, wholly a mistake...
...Connecticut; by Mrs. Alfreda Mitchell Bingham, whom he married in 1900; in Miami, Fla. Grounds: mental cruelty. "He did not greet me the same way he did the two dogs. He took the attitude that I had a very inferior mind, a very inferior brain, and wanted me to understand he felt that way," complained Mrs. Bingham in testimony corroborated by Woodbridge and Jonathan Brewster Bingham, oldest and youngest of their seven sons...
Sometimes he admits losing his temper ("We have lost our tempers to the point of neurasthenia. . . ."), sometimes he does it before your eyes: "Do not bother me about leaflets: I am not a machine and cannot work in the present disgraceful situation. . . . For Christ's sake do understand. . . . Unforgivable and shameful . . . simply a disgrace and death to the cause! . . . Yet here you are busy with the devil knows what kind of dirty business! ... If we don't break with the Central Committee and with the Council, then we shall only be worthy of being spat at." When...