Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago is the sickest city in America. Chicago is disgustingly stupid. . . . Chicago can't create a great [World's] fair. Chicago isn't big enough to arrest and protect Chicago's own society from the vicious operations of one little Al Capone. Chicago collectively is a municipal coward that no longer deserves the respect of a civilized world...
That was the surprise. The rest of the party consisted in pledges of frantic loyalty to the President by the Deputies. As a matter of fact several are known sympathizers of Judge Manuel Jesús Urbina of the Iquitos Judicial Court who was under arrest last week charged with instigating the 17-year-old pistol carrier, his servant. Therefore the cheers of all the Deputies, their cries of "Viva Leguía! Live, live 10,000 years!" were especially loud...
...expect the Government to arrest me, any moment. The British authorities are usually most quiet just before striking...
...wife of one Major Georgescu neatly on his mudguard, tumbled her in the gutter. In rage. Major Georgescu smashed the car's window with his riding crop, then suddenly recognizing the Prince, stopped, saluted. Flushed with anger, Prince Nicholas ordered the Major to three weeks' house arrest. Major Georgescu's commanding officer, General Vavrescu. further ordered him to apologize to Prince Nicholas in person...
...India was tense, watching to see if His Majesty's Government would arrest Mr. Gandhi when he should reach the sea and evaporate a gallon or two of water for a pinch of salt, thus breaking the law which makes salt a British monopoly in India. Pausing at the village of Tresela, St. Gandhi made a speech (characteristically) on a topic which had nothing to do with his main object of starting by example his long prepared campaign of "Indian mass civil disobedience." The subject: Child Marriage...