Word: writs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Odious General Warrant. Dissents were violent. Wrote Justice Murphy: "The Court today has resurrected and approved, in effect, the use of the odious general warrant or writ of assistance." Most crimes, he pointed out, have connected with them some small object, and a search for it inevitably becomes a general exploratory ransacking...
...soon as many leading churchmen wavered, let down, hemmed, hawed, compromised, beat about the bush about adultery, and remarriage of adulterers and adulteresses, contrary to Holy Writ, the secular, more appropriately called the pagan press, let loose with all caliber guns...
...served with a writ charging 'indecent behavior in a public thoroughfare," was ordered by a district court to pay a ?2 fine. Three dignified members of an appeal bench heard the outraged policeman give evidence: it was not in keeping with Egyptian tradition that a girl should "practically embrace a man in the street. In fact, husbands & wives, when in public view, always walked at a respectable distance of at least six feet...
Acting on legal advice that Parkhurst's civil right's were being violated, the CRIMSON prepared to petition the Federal District Court for a writ of permission to interrogate Parkhurst...
...movie tiptoes as respectfully close behind Maugham's 90-day wonder* as if it were stalking Holy Writ. Tyrone Power, back in Hollywood after 3½ years as a marine, is the introspective young man who returns from World War I full of questions about the spiritual meaning of life. Rather than marry Miss Tierney and settle down to bond-selling in the fleshpots of Chicago, he runs off to Paris to examine his troubled soul. Miss Tierney, plainly a non-spiritual type, sullenly marries wealthy John Payne and has a couple of daughters, but still yearns for Tyrone...