Word: warrantize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THIS dulcified and emasculate redaction of Mr. Firebaugh's originally very satisfactory translation of Petronius, pot house odyssey has evidently been prepared with an eye to the smut smellers and moral snoopers who, a few years since, swore out a warrant for the apprehension and arrest of the author, patently a fellow named Arbiter, who could probably be located in the phone book. Their failure to lay hands on Nero's contemporary seemed in on way to discourage the crusaders, but rather encouraged them to harry the publishers to such good effect that soon the first impression...
Harry F. Sinclair, already under $15,000 bail on two other counts, was not rearrested though a fresh warrant was obtained...
...Goldstein had a warrant for Dr. Miller's arrest, on behalf of Mrs. Miller. The surgeon was suing her for divorce, charging her with cruelty, impairing his health, refusing to associate with his mother and sisters, and ridiculing his father's favorite game (golf). Mrs. Miller wanted alimony. Of the details Mr. Goldstein cared not. He had his warrant to serve...
...Yard at this season of the year is magnificent. It is always impressive; in its autumnal garb it is even more so. Last spring when one half of the Yard was in the throes of an abdominal operation the scene was still sufficiently vernal and sufficiently inspirational to warrant odes and lyrics. And now, when there is nothing more disturbing than the sight of John Harvard in the hands of his tailor the sight is worthy not of mere editorials but of an urban Words-worth. While it is true that familiarity with some things breeds nothing but contempt, familiarity...
...decency of the affair. Enough has been said--perhaps too much--concerning Harvard's penchant for the quiet, the restrained, the indifferent. The CRIMSON firmly believes, however, that if any attitude is typical of the University it is this one. The chasm of trite collegiatism is too deep to warrant any precarious flirtations with its slopes...