Word: writs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scripps-Howard newspapers have believed WITH Hoover some of the time. We have believed IN him all of the time. . . . What the World's candidate says as to power ? or any other subject ? is right per se and must be accepted by the World as holy writ...
...abide Restoration drama in all its grossness this expurgated edition may be accepted with loss protest. A keen admirer of the Restoration gentleman, with all his artifices and crass language, chills and stratagems, will come away feeling that Pope's forever branding, "What pert low dialogue has Farquhar writ!" cannot possibly here apply, For Farquhar's diction, provincial and picaresque, his "unforced buoyant gaiety!" as Mr. William Archer has put it, has been so toned down for the unsullied Bostonian ear that Archer's daring, ".... you may have the same pleasure out of me, and still keep your fortune...
...emblem of salvation, the place upon which Christ himself made the great sacrifice for all of mankind, by these people who are spreading this propaganda while the Christ that they are supposed to adore, love and venerate, during all of his lifetime on earth taught the holy, sacred writ of brotherly love...
...Since you have lectured me and quoted Holy Writ for the good of my soul, I reciprocate in the spirit of a sincere desire to help you by suggesting that you restudy the entire Ten Commandments, as those Heaven-given precepts have been vastly useful in the past in creating and preserving good order in civil society. I have seen with a considerable degree of satisfaction your vigorous action against the gamblers and their camp followers, the prostitutes and bootleggers, up Saratoga way since some of us began prodding into your 'record'; though I regret that some...
...chased her across the grass, shot her dead. He was allowed to act as his own lawyer in his murder trial. The trial became a disorderly farce. The jury acquitted him on the ground of temporary insanity. Committed to the asylum, Remus successfully appealed in Allen County for a writ of habeas corpus. What freed him finally last week was the Ohio Supreme Court's four-to-three decision upholding the writ...