Word: writs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...multiplicity, fertility, and progress in educating advertisers "not to abuse the privilege of addressing the masses in their parlor."* In this splendor he also finds considerable mystery, as in the apparent passivity of the clergy toward a daytime serial called Light of the World-a breezy job on Holy Writ. ("Don't tell me again what the serpent said," shouts Adam at the dinner table, "I'm tired of hearing about...
...Suspend the writ of habeas corpus...
...civil service pension bill, had passed the House without a word of debate, without a roll calla Congressional device often used to avoid later embarrassment. In the Senate, silent acquiescence had been spoiled by the noisy opposition of Virginia's veteran pinchfist, Harry F. Byrd. Their names were writ large on the record...
...Dick Harlow's fears for tomorrow are neatly summarized in a terse warning printed in red chalk inside the players' dressing room at Dillon Field House. There, right beside the door, one of the managers has writ- ten "Remember--in 1939 and Harvard was favored 4 to 1. Yale won both!" The word Yale is underlined three times in blue crayon...
Before the week was out, Sir Thomas was photographed in even more annoying circumstances: receiving a writ from a process server. By way of the Seattle sheriff's office, His Majesty's Government notified Sir Thomas of its claim that he owed some $5,000 in back income taxes. The heir to Beecham's pills ("Worth a Guinea a Box") pleaded ignorance of the claim, cabled his solicitors to pay the claim, if just, or fight...