Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mrs. Lansdowne came before the court with a lawyer, Joseph Davies of Wisconsin, onetime (1915-16) Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. He insisted on making a statement for his client. The Court frowned upon him and ordered his silence. Witnesses were not entitled to counsel. Mr. Davies insisted. Rear...
. . . . And the overshadowing influence of football does not end with the last game of the season. The sport distorts the whole social structure of the average American college. Even in the most professedly democratic institutions caste, grows up around football prowess. . . . One of the literary clubs of Yale languished until...
The Daily News was first. In its pages appeared the photograph of a man who had just been struck by a truck. He was shown lying on his back on the pavement, a disheveled white-faced form, under the caption SPEEDY WORK BY CAMERA MAN. As a matter of fact...
While so many Italians thus took themselves with deadly seriousness, an Italian naval seaplane (the adjective is not redundant) skimmed the upper surface of the Mediterranean off Spezia. An Italian submarine skimmed the under surface, only the top of its periscope showing. With a splintering crash, periscope met plane. The...
Margery was made to disrobe under the eagle eye of a trained nurse. She put on an examined dressing gown and slippers, decorated her face, wrists and ankles with luminous paint, and placed her hands in those of an observer in the darkened room. An electric current was passed through...