Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arrests. Abdur Rahman Fahmy Bey, Mahmud Nekrashy Effendi, Makrum Obeid Effendi and Barakat Pasha, all prominent members of Zaghlul's party organization and still Deputies of Parliament, were arrested in their homes by British soldiers for plotting against the British. The following day 35 more arrests were effected. A great cry went up protesting that the four Deputies enjoyed parliamentary immunity from arrest and that the British had acted illegally...
Andrew J. Volstead clapping his hand to the shoulder of Jesus Christ in the manner of one who makes an arrest; William J. Bryan spilling a jar of wine made by holy miracle out of water; William H. Anderson at the doorway in a derby hat. This parable?a raid on the marriage feast of Cana, painted by J. Francois Kaufman and exhibited last year in Manhattan?led to the arrest and conviction of Abraham S. Baylinson, Secretary of the Society of Independent Artists, for "violation of public decency." Last week an Appellate Court reversed the decision, returned...
...Straton has been a vigorous foe of modern dancing, and through his investigations has caused the arrest of several proprietors of New York dancing palaces. He believes that modern dances are a sign of degeneracy in the human race and carry along in their wake a riot of drinking and licentiousness...
...instead of flattering, to tell the plain facts instead of forcing the great man to conform to the thesis of the book, began with Lytton Strachey's "Queen Victoria" The new method was so interesting and compelling that later biographies had perforce to copy the manner or fail to arrest attention. But where a man has been made into a myth, as Stevenson certainly has, the task of the biographer becomes doubly hard, for he must go against accepted opinion, and people will only half believe what he says...
While under arrest, Mr. de Valera heard that he had been defeated as Republican candidate in the general elections. As a matter of fact, the 13 seats of Northern Ireland were all captured by the Conservative Party...