Word: arrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these moments occurs when, at 22, he first takes the hand of the twelve-year-old girl he loves. She loves him, too, and their hearts are faithful through years of separation brought on by evil gossipers and the threat of arrest for contributing to the delinquency of a minor...
Anything to Oblige. In Los Angeles, when police told Mrs. Grace Smith that they couldn't arrest her husband for assault without sufficient evidence, Smith, who had wanted a little privacy anyway, stepped right up and socked...
...pupils, when he was thrown into jail. It had come to the notice of the vigilant police that Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde's enormous wealth and social prestige rested wholly upon her very efficient management of a profitable white-slave trade. Since it was necessary to arrest somebody, the police, like the Oxford authorities, saw that Paul was their...
Peristaltic Revulsion. In one degree or another, much of his work is an expression of loathing-a peristaltic revulsion of the soul. Waugh grasps at all outward forms-rank, ceremonies, cuisine, evocations of the architecture of once lovely and stately houses-to arrest the effortless slide of the old world into the muck of modernity. Brideshead is such an evocation...
...fighting would be over in a couple of days. The Chicago Tribune's aggressive, indignant Jules Dubois filed a piece on Communism's part in the Government and was promptly sought in our hotel by four soldiers toting submachine guns. They told him he was under hotel arrest and that the Government could not be responsible for his safety...