Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wearing the barrel, but his neck was chained to the roof. His feet were nailed down in heavy stocks. When he was found dead a justice of the peace directed that there be no inquest. The Press stirred up a fury of public indignation over the affair. County Detective Gasque investigated. Murder indictments were returned against Acting Guard Captain George W. Courson, a 285-lb. hulker, and Solomon Higginbotham, his assistant. Their trial concluded last week at Jacksonville...
Although almost all of the pictures depicting the Sacco-Vanzetti affair merge on caricature, there is more of art than mere clever distortion in these gouaches. When the exhibit appeared at the Downtown Gallery in New York City, many were inclined to dismiss the whole of Shahn's work as comic-strip treatment of more serious topics, yet even the poignancy that speaks from each picture is testimony that there is something more permanent than grim humor here...
...decade the whole affair has been moving in a vicious circle. The United States leans money to Germany; this is paid to the various European countries as reparations; they in turn pay it back to the United States as their war debts. In other words no money is paid at all. Von Papen's statement is a perfectly solid fact. Unless tariffs are lowered Germany cannot sell her goods abroad., no credit can be built up, and thus no debts can be paid. Since no country will consent to lower its tariff purely for economic idealism, the moratorium must...
...Colonel had to think fast, and before taking Prince Mihai on to London to join Mihai's sad-eyed mother, Princess Helen, he reported the whole affair to King Carol...
...meandering and sometimes subterranean narrative, the complete career of Hero Red. he apparently went to college for a while and was a good baseball player. Then he started to work in a mill in his home town, wished he had nerve enough lo get himself a girl. His only affair, too brief and onesided to be at all satisfactory, was with an older woman, the town librarian, who was momentarily attracted by his fresh callowness. Red wandered off to other Southern mill towns...