Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Cardinal Mercier, wrathfully out of his Archbishop's Palace at Malines. He not only told the Catholic voters of Belgium in a formal statement that Rexism is "a danger to the country and the Church" but he issued an advance "rebuke" to anyone who cast a blank ballot. Under Belgian law every enfranchised male must vote. Many blank ballots were expected to be cast by such Catholics as consider the Premier too innovating a New Dealer. After the Primate had spoken everyone agreed, "Degrelle hasn't a chance...
French, who had been drinking, entered without knocking, muttered some unintelligible words and fired point blank at McCracken. He then went to a neighbor's house where he surrendered to Night Jailer George Kelly who took him to jail. To Deputy Sheriff C. R. Serper at the jail he said, "I have stood all the insults to my family I can stand," would say nothing more. McCracken was rushed to the hospital where his wife collapsed, recovered and aided the surgeons. She stood by until McCracken died two hours later...
...cage, slithered along an upward-sloping row of pedestals until he was crouched on the highest one. Two tigers came in and took their places beside him. Ten or twelve more beasts entered. While some of these were still milling around on the cage floor, Clyde Beatty, holding a blank-loaded pistol and a steel-bolted chair in his left hand and a whip in his right jumped into the cage, slapped the gate shut behind, pranced, crouched, cracked his whip. A lion made a tentative lunge at him. The pistol barked, the chair legs blocked the thrust...
...could pass sentence there. The woman lay on her back, arms folded over her chest, breathing slowly, her lips twitching. Apparently Helen Love was not only unaware of Judge Smith, but of a score of doctors, lawyers, jailers, reporters, photographers gathered in her cell. Dr. Benjamin Blank, jail physician, told the judge that Mrs. Love's condition was "mental," but that she was not "insane." Nevertheless, Judge Smith took a look at the sleeping prisoner, declared: "The court doubts the sanity of the defendant." Therewith he postponed sentence until three more psychiatrists could pass on Helen Love...
Every Freshman must indicate his choice of a field of concentration by Friday, March 19. Two blanks, which are to be filled in and returned to the office of the Committee on the Choice of Electives in C University Hall not inter than 5 o'clock on that date, are being sent to every member of the class. One blank, the Plan of Study, must include the specific courses which the student expects to take both in his field and for distribution; the other; his Study Card for 1937-38, must include a list of the courses he expects...