Word: warrantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three knocks on the great oak door significantly implied that the Fellows of Eton need not admit the King's nominee unless they wanted to. The Fellows, though, had decided that they wanted Lord Hugh, admitted him. Crossing School Yard to Upper Chapel he produced his royal warrant to prove he was no impostor, listened to addresses in Latin by Headmaster Elliott and the captain of the school. Lord Hugh, as was fitting, replied in Latin, but probably not 50 of the 1,100 aristocratic youths present knew what he was talking about. For many of them their knowledge...
Judge Knight's only further interest in the case proved to be Playwright George S. Kaufman (Dinner at Eight, Of Thee I Sing). Depicted as the "Perfect Lover" in Actress Astor's memoirs, Kaufman had ignored a subpoena to testify. Before a warrant for his arrest could be served on him, he had secretly fled from Hollywood to Manhattan. "There won't be any settlement for Kaufman," fumed Judge Knight. "I'll put him away for a while to cool off if he ever comes back into the jurisdiction of this court! He could write quite...
...stepped from the yacht of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Producer Irving Thalberg, Playwright Kaufman made no formal comment to the Press, but was reported by friends to have torn his hair and cried "I'm being crucified -crucified!" When he failed to appear as the subpoena directed, a warrant was issued for his arrest...
...leader of the Spanish monarchists, able, eloquent Deputy José Calvo Sotelo, onetime Minister of Finance under the late Dictator Primo de Rivera. Calvo had just notified the Government that he planned to interpellate it next day on the riots. Assault Guardsmen called on Calvo with a warrant, took him off in their police car, dumped his body, shot, mangled and bashed, at Madrid's Municipal Cemetery (TIME, July...
...house some days before, Caretaker null and sister had refused to budge, had begun patrolling the place with rifles and revolvers in their hands Last week a white woman complained that William Walles had threatened her with a gun. The Orange County sheriff swore out a lunacy warrant, went to bring the pair...