Word: baring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shocked last week when one Hyman Stark, 20, died at the hands of the Nassau County police, guardians of New York's most swank and civilized area. Arrested for beating and robbing a county detective's mother, Stark was put in the "goldfish bowl" (a bright bare room for inquisitions) at Mineola headquarters, given the third-degree for eight hours. An autopsy showed Stark died from a fractured larynx, complicated by a cerebral hemorrhage. His body was horribly marked. Explained the District Attorney: "Some overenthusiastic police officer broke that man's Adam's apple...
...Brent is a bovine farmer who needs a cook and wife. Barbara Stanwyck, Manhattan nightclub girl, wants to get-away-from-it-all. She answers his advertisement. The picture hews close to the line of probability. The farmer's life is dirty, uncomfortable, exacting. His house is a bare sty. His manners are bad. Repelled at first, Barbara Stanwyck grows to love George Brent as his woes accumulate. A onetime suitor appears, lends Barbara money to pay mortgage interest, is knocked out by Brent, who is then in a position to plant his prizewinning wheat. After the paralyzed winter...
Later General Glassford encountered Negroes and whites brawling on the dusty ground. Pushing them apart with his bare hands, he warned: "We're all Veterans together and there'll be no fighting among Veterans...
...permission. A policeman was produced. Still Courtney twiddled. He twiddled the dials all day. At nightfall, as his employers' eyes popped, he opened the safe. As the door swung open, his employers hustled cocky Locksmith Courtney away. He did not see what treasure it was he had laid bare...
...artists, lived by the saints. To discover about the True, discover Truth's elation, it is necessary for a man to read philosophy, more necessary for him to think philosophically. To accomplish this feat the Abbe suggests that a man try to put himself in Adam's bare feet, look at the world with newborn eyes, try to answer the whys and hows his mind will naturally ask. That is philosophy. Its reward is less in getting questions answered than in a man's growing ability to ask higher and deeper questions. The Abbe illustrates his method...