Word: arraigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John V. A. Weaver the drawling dialog of a story that has no connection with the verses by the same title published last year by Joseph Moncure Marsh. The sound-device, recording the Bow voice for the first time, sometimes lags behind, sometimes careers ahead of episodes which arraign young irresponsibility for the purpose of illustrating it and which are not kept from being tedious by their waggish, unjustified affectation of daring. Best shot-Joyce Compton as a tattletale...
After all, it is hardly fair to arraign the undergraduate press alone for superficiality. A flow of printer's ink is the only division between the mass of students and the student editor. If cynic flippancy and supreme omniscience till the editorial pages, they are only the expression of one mind or the others of ill-directed curiosity that misses the value of circumspection, typical of the undergraduate attitude of today. The papers have become truer mirrors of current ideas than they ever tried...
...health. As months passed, it was she, not Wilhelm, who passed sleepless nights and nerve-wracked days, lest the Allies enforce Part IV (Penalties) Article 227 of the Treaty of Versailles. Therein are inscribed the most celebrated "dead sentences" of that document: "The Allied and Associated Powers publicly arraign William II, of Hohenzollern, formerly German Emperor, for a supreme offense against international morality and the sanctity of treaties...
...Utica, N. Y., one Mrs. Mae Kingsley Mullane sat up till 1:30 on a Saturday night, waited for her husband, then shot him dead with a revolver. In court, last week, she heard the judge arraign her for murder, was led to a cell where she asked for something to read. Said the Utica Observer-Dispatch: "One of the magazines she is reported to have requested is Time, a weekly magazine of current events...
...arraign the former leader before a court of justice does not correspond at all with the dignity of the German people, and even our enemy countries admit that Ludendorff was inspired solely by patriotic motives. The whole world will ridicule and jeer at Germans because of this patriotic tragedy...