Word: voided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...club or that he will not join any other club, and any such pledge or promise, whether originating in misunderstanding or otherwise, shall not be binding upon such undergraduate or upon any of the said clubs agreeing there-to, but shall be regarded by everybody as null and void and contrary to the spirit of this agreement...
...without food through a world of blue ice lighted by stars as big as melons. Perhaps they would shake, as he was shaking now, if they saw cold fire creep across heaven and throw, with a noise like tearing silk, luminous sheets of red, yellow and green into a void without bounds, over a world without warmth, through a great, glittering night without a dawn . . . by jingo...
...join any club or that he will not join any other club, and any such pledge or promise, whether originating in misunderstanding or otherwise, shall not be binding upon such undergraduate or upon any of the said clubs agreeing thereto, but shall be regarded by everybody as null and void and contrary to the spirit of this agreement...
Last week a Paris court declared null and void the marriage of Count Jacques Bouly de Lesdain, explorer-journalist, and Mabel Bailey of Chicago. According to French law, a Frenchman marrying abroad must have the ceremony performed either by a French diplomatic agent, or in the custom of the country of residence at the time. Neither of these conditions were fulfilled. A Belgian missionary is not a French diplomat. Mongolian custom says that a man must either capture his wife in a horse galloping ceremony, or buy her from her family (ten ewe lambs being the price of a maiden...
...same Justices dissented, on the grounds that the state legislature might have good reason, when the majority of the Court held that a Pennsylvania statute forbidding the use of shoddy in making comfortables was unreasonable, therefore void (TIME, March...