Word: blameless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...funeral. For weeks feeling ran high in Detroit. The Governor flew over from Lansing to direct the investigation of the murder. From August to last January a special, hand-picked grand jury sifted evidence, some of which later tentled to show that Jerry Buckley had not led a blameless life. The jury indicted Ted Pizzino, Joseph Bommarito and Angelo Livecchi for the murder. All three had been apprehended soon after the killing. Last week, after the trial jury had heard testimony for 34 days and deliberated for 33 hours, a verdict was reached in the Buckley murder case: not guilty...
...Since the panic last November conditions have grown steadily worse, despite the Pollyanna statements of the Administration and the misleading reports of its members. . . . However blameless the President may have been for the initial panic, it is most unfortunate that added disappointment should have come from his persistent coloring of real conditions. . . . Securities and commodities are lower than ever and the unemployment situation is steadily becoming worse. . . . The President issued no word of warning of the catastrophe, though after it he was glib in his explanation of the why and where fore...
...quarterly published in Paris. Say those who profess to understand the design of the whole: Hero H. C. Earwicker, onetime postman, hotelkeeper, shopkeeper, now working in Guinness's brewery, is a Dublin citizen, but a native of Norway. He is married, has children; but his past is not blameless. A girl named Anna Livia haunts his slumbers; he has been guilty of various misdeeds, brawls and shortcomings. The story opens with Earwicker just lapsing into drowsy slumber, continues through the night, through sleep that is now restless, now deep, visited by dreams, nightmares, confused recollections of the past...