Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judge Hincks was sternly critical of the Government's presentation as an attempt to "pollute the stream of justice." He accused the Government's attorney of trying to "smear an honest officer" in cross-examining a State police sergeant. He objected to the Government's lengthy charge that the defense had suppressed evidence without offering "a shred of support for the charge." But particularly annoying to the handsome, greying judge was the Government's plea to the jury to ignore the Court's charge. "[A judge] may fall into error," said Judge Hincks...
...officials and foreign diplomats up the Yangtze, Generalissimo Chiang brought down the river enormous levies of fresh Chinese troops, and these were flung against the advancing Japanese. General Pau Chung-hsi, chief of staff, advised that from a military point of view it would be best to make no attempt to defend Nanking. Generalissimo Chiang, who during the past seven years has spent millions embellishing his capital and mak-ing it the bright symbol of New China, unhesitatingly ordered Nanking's defense at any cost. "One day we intend to erect upon ruins," clarioned Chiang, "a new national structure...
...three weeks since the original FTC decision trying hard to get it altered. Last week Erwin Feldman, counsel for the National Association of House Dress Manufacturers, tried a new tack by storming that fibre identification is due to Japanese propaganda spread by the International Silk Guild in an attempt to spike rayon sales...
...present the police are concentrating their efforts in an attempt to find out what Burgess did between the time he left his room for the Davidson game and the time his coat was found on the bridge twelve hours later...
John Bakeless adds to this small list a careful, 404-page biography of Marlowe that pulls together a mass of recently discovered Marlowe material, explodes a few hoary Marlowe legends, but leaves the poet as mysterious and romantic as ever. Making a studious attempt to avoid scholarly language, Mr. Bakeless nevertheless spends much time answering earlier scholars, tracks many incorrect interpretations down many blind alleys...