A night of intense darkness enveloped the Hudson. Outside the inside of the dockside a dense fog wrapped the Statue of Liberty. Beside the steamer customs officers and deportation officials moved silently to and fro in long black cloaks, carrying little deportation lanterns in their hands.
To these Mr. Overgold presented in silence his deportation certificates, granting his party permission to leave the United States under the imbecility clause of the Interstate Commerce Act.
No objection was raised.
Something new, something old
March 6, 2013 by ETat
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I always liked the idea of a dedicated deportation lantern. (“Use only as directed.”)
I myself am partial to the Imbecility Clause…
I like the Imbecility Clause as well, almost as much as the sanity clause, even if the modern social philosopher Leonard Marx says there ain’t no such thing as Sanity Claus.
And I “raise no objection”!