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...this, for I have been a resident of Cayuga County all my life and I recall very vividly the interest which Dugdale's book aroused when published in 1884. I have never heard this county spoken of as the home of the Jukes, and I have looked in vain through my copy of the book for a verification of your statement; so I should like very much to know your authority...
...vain," shouted the master of Italy, "did others try to steal the glory. ... I want to say in a voice of thunder that, Italy, it was you who were responsible for this glory!" He wished to recognize "with Roman justice" the merit of Nobile and his men, because "you, an Italian, planned the ship; you, an Italian, with other Italians, built it; and you, an Italian, with other Italians, wisely guided it to the end of the extraordinary voyage...
...might be considered by the forward-looking the first play of the new season was not very good. It dealt with a handsome wife whose husband stole to buy her pretty clothes. Whereupon he was clapped firmly into jail and she went to live with the villain in the vain hope that his wealthy influence would liberate the unselfish sinner...
...admiration of a great public, dwindled in flame, still clutching to bare bosoms a trail of cloth or towel; their dark or flaxen heads became lumps of strange matter that smoked and stewed and reeked; their carmine lips, half-parted, twisted for a while as if in a vain effort to breathe the fire, until, under the rapture of this last kiss, they closed forever. None escaped. They were wax models, destined for the windows of department stores, milliners, hairdressers...
Such things may well appeal to laymen. But I have high hopes that they will appeal to the bar also. For in the end the results of legal research must aprove themselves to the bar or the investigations will have been in vain. And a program of legal research may well appeal to the bar, if for no other reason, because through research we may most assuredly preserve the common law as the law of our several states and the conspicuous bond of union among English-speaking peoples...