Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hungary has in this taken a step worthy of emulation. Prompt and scientific action on the part of the detective service can lead only to equally efficient action by the courts, so that the escape of offenders may be expected to become a thing of the past. At a time when American methods and agents are being subjected to intense scrutiny, it might be well, if only to bolster public confidence, to follow the lead of Europe in dealing with and reducing the extraneous part of the population...
...University, second University and Freshman wrestling teams will all see action this afternoon when the University seconds journey to Andover to versity matmen face Williams, the Uni-meet the schoolboys, and the first-year grapplers take on Choate...
...causes that have made it necessary to take this action are to be found in the economic conditions that have prevailed since the war. The cost of education has gone up; and the gifts to Harvard do not produce enough additional income to meet the increased cost...
...nearby presence of his widowed "grandmama,'' famed Margot Asquith. Perhaps, on the other hand, he was now and then whisperingly reminded not to squirm by his mother. She is Mrs. Raymond Asquith, widow of the late statesman's eldest son, who was killed in action in 1916. Whether she whispered or "Margot" frowned, the eleven-year-old heir & Earl listened with exemplary gravity, last week, while Prime Minister Baldwin and onetime Prime Ministers Lloyd George & Ramsay MacDonald declaimed funereally from the floor of the House...
...With elaborate cunning, he constructed his plan. Mlle. Roseray would go into Central Park and give an imitation of a woman trying, not very hard, to commit suicide; she would be rescued by sensation seekers who, with shouts and squealings, might decoy a few newshawks to the scene of action. Newshawks would then fly to the home of Mlle. Roseray; there they would find a note addressed to the proprietor of her night club, a suicide note, of which this was to be the purport: "Because, you see, I love you." In the meantime, the rescued lady would be taken...