Word: repeatedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with human thought or speech or conduct can by any possibility be enforced. . . . If it be urged that all statutes . . . that have the form of law have also by reason of that very fact the full force and authority of law, then one can only sigh and repeat softly the immortal words of Mr. Bumble:* 'If the law supposes that, the law is a ass, a idiot . . . and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience...
...Irish Rose, which closed with its 2,400th performance on the night of Oct. 22, 1927. No one ever learned what glib compelling secret Anne Nichols had put into her play to make so many people want to see it. She herself has not been able to repeat its success; imitators have been unable, in story, play or cinema to duplicate its homely attractions...
...purchase of rosewood mounted radios and such bibelots with which to satisfy his sybaritic lusts and whose ultimate depravity is the selling of a pair of football tickets to a speculator, "the act, he knew, of a certain type of student designated by an obscene noun," if, I repeat you can believe our colleges are the scenes of such debauched revelry and licentious extravagance, you will have a hot half hour with "The Trun of the Tide...
...personages to make oral proclamation, some three days after the event*, from the Friary Court balcony of St. James's Palace; and thereafter and furthermore to proclaim the accession of the new Sovereign, proclaim it again at Charing Cross, carry tidings to the Lord Mayor of London, and repeat the proclamation yet again in the Close, adjoining Chancery Lane, and finally at the Royal exchange, whereupon simultaneous salutes would boom from St. James's Park and the Tower of London...
Last week Sculptor Brancusi won his case. In its decision the Customs Court dogmatically defined art: "It is a work of art by reason of its symmetrical shape, artistic outlines and beauty of finish." Even the most wretched of logicians knows enough not to repeat the same term in both subject and definition ("art" -"artistic outline"). But Sculptor Brancusi had his money refunded...