Word: writ
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very things in his work that have set the conventional-minded to spluttering with outrage have made Cummings a writ ers' writer and a particular idol of the young. A few years ago, when Cummings went to Bennington College in Vermont to give a reading, the entire audience of girls rose as he mounted the platform and chanted in unison one of his poems...
...draft dodger under the Selective Service Act, has just received word that the U.S. Attorney in his home state of Oregon has stated that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which permits him to be tried in Massachusetts, is unconstitutional. He will surrender French's files only on a writ of mandamus from the Supreme Court...
Unless he can secure this writ, which will cost about $1,000, French said he must be sentenced in Oregon. Although he must plead guilty, French thinks he will got a shorter and pleasanter sentence here, where two "liberally enlightened" Massachusetts judges have previously favored draft dodgers...
...most readers, The Red Carnation will seem to be simply a tale of adolescent love, writ in neon. Hero Mainardi is a 16-year-old schoolboy who falls in love with a girl student. She gives him a red carnation. But on visiting the local brothel, Mainardi promptly loses both his unstable heart and his symbolic carnation to a prostitute. In her, Mainardi sees all his boyish dreams of confident maturity come true; she sees in him the innocence and naturalness that she has lost...
...What then?" he repeated rhetorically. "There can be only one other source of power under which seizure can be deduced -the Constitution." Like a preacher reciting Holy Writ, Davis listed the presidential powers granted in Article II of the Constitution. When he came to the passage charging the President with faithful execution of the laws, he looked up sharply. "What must he take care that he execute faithfully? The laws. He cannot himself proclaim the law and then execute it. The masters of the law are the members of Congress...