Word: assaults
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rest closed in. From the yelling confusion of heads, chairs, fists, feet and brief cases, three figures finally emerged: Mr. Bennett safely through the door with his proxies ; Lawyer Powers slammed against a wall; Lawyer Carney dashing for a telephone to summon the police, crying: "That man [Powers] committed assault & battery upon me. I'll have him arrested." Lawyer Powers, regaining his composure, gruffed: "Ridiculous...
Acquitted, Dorothea Wendt Livermore, 38, divorced wife of Wall Street Plunger Jesse Livermore Sr.; of assault charges after shooting her 16-year-old son Jesse Jr. while he was staging a drinking bout in her California home (TIME, Dec. 9); in Santa Barbara, Calif. In absolving his mother, Jesse Jr. testified that the gun went off when he forced it into her hands as the climax of a maudlin "mock death scene...
...afternoon of July 3, 1863, with the echoes of the greatest cannonade in U. S. history just dying away among the Gettysburg hills, a burly bearded officer nodded his head, sent Pickett and some 7,000 men across the open fields to their hopeless assault. That charge, whose last thin waves lapped up through the Union centre, was the high-water mark of the Confederacy. The officer whose nod sent Pickett's column to its doom was General James Longstreet. Around his burly figure the battle-smoke of partisan controversy has hung thick ever since. Did Longstreet lose...
...year, yes, in many ways. We in Massachusetts are all too conscious of a real and active assault on the tradition of academic freedom. The country at large frets at "fads and fancies" in our colleges and universities and is demanding a more utilitarian product. Even some very thoughtful persons are wondering if science has not moved too fast for the world in the last century and if a "breathing-spell" on research and invention should not be declared...
Before he leaves New Jersey, however, John Crempa may have to face charges of malicious mischief for tampering with P. S. C.'s wires or of assault & battery for trying to fight off the deputies...