Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with an historian's objectivity rather than with a newshawk's interest in a spectacular figure. He insists on Lenin's cold colorlessness, even while relating how Lenin plotted to disguise himself as a deaf-&-dumb Swede in order to return to Russia; how he escaped arrest by hiding successively in a loft, a hut in a hayfield, a railway locomotive; how still in hiding, he began a theoretical work on the State just as the revolution approached its climax...
...issue of TIME on pp. 14 and 15 in an article headed "Robbers' Den about the arrest of Carl Rettich for a Post Office robbery in Fall River, you make the following statement, "Senator Gerry and club members often graced Neighbor Rettich's lawn parties with their presence...
...State Income Tax Department. The agent seized 75-year-old James Henry Rand Sr. retired maker of card-index systems, hustled him off to the Barnstable town lockup. There Oldster Rand was charged with dodging Massachusetts income taxes of $35,000 in 1928-29-30. Reason for the sudden arrest, it turned out, was that the tax-collectors feared Mr. Rand might make a getaway on his son's yacht. Disgruntled Mr. Rand spent the night in jail. Arraigned next morning, he protested that up to 1932 he paid his taxes in New York. Furthermore, he could pay no Massachusetts...
...trenches, drive the men forward. But the artillery officer refused, unless the general would put the order in writing-which he was not insane enough to do. In 35 minutes the hopeless attack was over. The regiment was ordered out of the line the same day, was put under arrest as soon as it was safely in the rear. For the regiment's alleged cowardice, the general ordered one man from each company shot...
...vampire outdoors. For werewolves, bat-thorn is as innocuous as the parsley on a mashed potato and the only flower that has any effect at all is the "mariphasa," which blooms by moonlight in a valley in Tibet. Taken in small doses, the juice of the mariphasa will arrest lycanthropy temporarily. The Werewolf of London is a nasty little fantasy showing what happens when two werewolves begin squabbling between themselves in order to gain possession of the only mariphasa plant in London...