Word: regardless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into the courts come infinite circumstantial variations of the common-law marriage, most of them confused in intent and darkened by deliberate secrecy. Courts generally hold that the good faith of one party sustains such a union, regardless of the mental reservations of the other. Promiscuity, neglect, cruelty, etc., open the door to legal separation as in any statutory marriage. The secrecy usual in a lover-mistress relationship prevents its becoming a common-law marriage unless time dispels the cloak and establishes public and personal acceptance of the union...
...Sedgwick, if he has not yet discovered the individual author of the documents, must be convinced that their authorship rests between the mother and the daughter, and must be sheltering both from the family disgrace that would follow upon the revelation of the truth. But, regardless of the loss to his own reputation for discernment, has Mr. Sedgwick the right to maintain this attitude of chivalrous protection in a historic matter of such profound national interest
...Sedgwick, if he has not yet discovered the individual author of the documents, must be convinced that their authorship rests between the mother and the daughter, and must be sheltering both from the family disgrace that would follow upon the revelation of the truth. But, regardless of the loss to his own reputation for discernment, has Mr. Sedgwick the right to maintain this attitude of chivalrous protection in a historic matter of such profound national interest
...There can be no excuse for the complacent violation. . . . There are only two honorable courses open to us: either modify the law or squarely face the sacrifices . . . of enforcement. The third course is the policy we, as a nation, are pursuing: namely, to keep the law regardless of whether it is enforced or not. This is . . . nullification...
...sang the heart of Richard Hovey, Dartmouth '85. Now Dartmouth wants the Hovey words set to music, and an anonymous enthusiast has offered $1,000 to any composer, regardless of creed or college, who submits the best, most fitting tune to Judges Channing Cox, '01, of Boston, onetime Governor of Massachusetts; Nelson P. Brown, '09, of Everett, Mass.; and Charles E. Griffith, '15, of Newark...