"Schireman" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL
In Saxon lnw. An officer haviug the clvll government of n shire, or county; an enrl. 1 Bl. Comm. 398
My wife and I had called on Miss Stein, and she and the friend who lived with her had been very cordial and friendly and we had loved the big studio with the great paintings. I t was like one of the best rooms in the finest museum except there was a big fireplace and it was warm and comfortable and they gave you good things to eat and tea and natural distilled liqueurs made from purple plums, yellow plums or wild raspberries.Miss Stein was very big but not tall and was heavily built like a peasant woman. She had beautiful eyes and a strong German-Jewish face that also could have been Friulano and she reminded me of a northern I talian peasant woman with her clothes, her mobile face and her lovely, thick, alive immigrant hair which she wore put up in the same way she had probably worn it in college. She talked all the time and at first it was about people and places.Her companion had a very pleasant voice, was small, very dark, with her hair cut like Joan of Arc in the Boutet de Monvel illustrations and had a very hooked nose. She was working on a piece of needlepoint when we first met them and she worked on this and saw to the food and drink and talked to my wife. She made one conversation and listened to two and often interrupted the one she was not making. Afterwards she explained to me that she always talked to the wives. The wives, my wife and I felt, were tolerated. But we liked Miss Stein and her friend, although the friend was frightening. The paintings and the cakes and the eau-de-vie were truly wonderful. They seemed to like us too and treated us as though we were very good, well-mannered and promising children and I felt that they forgave us for being in love and being married - time would fix that - and when my wife invited them to tea, they accepted.
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An American automobile company and a Japanese auto company decided to have a competitive boat race on the Detroit River. Both teams practiced hard and long to reach their peak performance. On the big day, they were as ready as they could be.The Japanese team won by a mile.Afterwards, the American team became discouraged by the loss and their morale sagged. Corporate management decided that the reason for the crushing defeat had to be found. A Continuous Measurable Improvement Team of "Executives" was set up to investigate the problem and to recommend appropriate corrective action.Their conclusion: The problem was that the Japanese team had 8 people rowing and 1 person steering, whereas the American team had 1 person rowing and 8 people steering. The American Corporate Steering Committee immediately hired a consulting firm to do a study on the management structure.After some t ime and billions of dollars, the consulting firm concluded that "too many people were steering and not enough rowing." To prevent losing to the Japanese again next year, the management structure was changed to "4 Steering Managers, 3 Area Steering Managers, and 1 Staff Steering Manager" and a new performance system for the person rowing the boat to give more incentive to work harder and become a six sigma performer. "We must give him empowerment and enrichment." That ought to do it.The next year the Japanese team won by two miles.The American Corporation laid off the rower for poor performance, sold all of the paddles, cancelled all capital investments for new equipment, halted development of a new canoe, awarded high performance awards to the consulting firm, and distributed the money saved as bonuses to the senior executives.
To farm. Derived from an old Saxon word denoting rent Ad flrmam noctis was a fine or penalty equal in …
Read the complete definitionA diphthong in the Latin language; used also by the Saxon writers. It answers to the Gr. ai. The Anglo-Saxon …
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. A guest at an lnn, who, haviug stayed there for three nlghts, was then accounted one of …
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. Free from penalty, not subject to the payment of gild, or weregild; that Is, the customary fine …
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Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. Alms-fee; nlins-money. otherwise called "Peterpence.” Cowell
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Read the complete definitionThe language of the English people before the Conquest (sometimes called Old English). See Saxon.
Read the complete definitionThe Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest.
Read the complete definitionOne of the race or people who claim descent from the Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in …
Read the complete definitionThe Anglo-Saxon domain (i. e., Great Britain and the United States, etc.); the Anglo-Saxon race.
Read the complete definitionA characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race; especially, a word or an idiom of the Anglo-Saxon tongue.
Read the complete definitionThe quality or sentiment of being Anglo-Saxon, or English in its ethnological sense.
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. The rate flx-ed by law at which certain injuries to.per-son or property were to be paid for; …
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. A preliminary or preparatory oath, (called also “pr#juramentum,” and “juramcntum calumni#,”) which both the accuser and ac-cused …
Read the complete definitionA collection of Sax-on laws, published during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, iu the Saxon language, with a* Latin version …
Read the complete definitionIn Saxon law. A penalty for a wrong done by oue iu the king’s lattice. The offender was to replace …
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