Word: adame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...custody of a deputy U. S. marshal, up shuffled aging R. C. Tackett, clad in a homemade shirt and overalls. Jailed in Kentucky on a shooting charge, he had refused to venture up to Washington except under Federal protection. With his Adam's apple bobbing, Tackett kept glancing nervously back at the bosses and deputies in the audience as he told the Senate Committee how the dynamiting had been plotted among Unthank, himself, Patterson and the prosecuting attorney of adjoining Bell County. He had been too drunk to do the job, he twanged, but had been paid...
Roark Bradford has already added his bit to U. S. letters in Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun, the book from which Marc Connelly made The Green Pastures. Author Bradford has never quite recaptured the careless rapture of his first book, but he is now well established as a legitimate heir of Joel Chandler Harris. The Three-Headed Angel is a new departure for him, not only because it is not laid in the deep South but because it has only one Negro character. Most readers will consider that his Hoop Pole Ridgers make up for the loss...
...themselves, but when first employed they penetrated masks, made it intolerable for soldiers to keep their masks on and thus exposed them to lethal gases like phosgene which were fired in the same bombardment. Favorite irritant of the Germans was diphenylchlorarsine. The Entente developed a similar one called diphenylaminechlorarsine (Adam-site), but never got it into action. These irritants are not stopped by any canister chemicals and an extremely efficient filter, which makes for hard breathing, is necessary...
...Adam is the question of the suitability of the S.B. degree; yet like the pollution of that scriptural figure time has not satisfactorily disposed of the matter. Still there are men who graduate from Harvard and, though they have not concentrated in any scientific field, receive S.B. degrees because Latin conjugations or Greek declensions had no appeal for them in prep school. Their immediate reaction is open or secret ire and a strong impulse to kick Harvard officials where they will feel it most. A man concentrating in Music and gaining for his effort a S.B. learns too early...
...frenzied drama. Russell and Palmerston plotting behind Minister Adams's back; Minister Adams sensing it, yet soothing the jangled feelings of Secretary of State Seward with optimistic dispatches. Without Minister Adam's consummate statecraft the United States of America might never have emerged from the Civil strife. There could have been war with England as well as with the rebellious South. Once, when Earl Russell assured Adams that there would be no intervention, that England's policy would remain unchanged, Adams was unaware that a few hours previously Russell had proposed intervention to a cabinet which rejected his proposal. Henry...