Word: blush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporters, an ambitious fellow he must be, although ambition is strictly against newspaper tradition, broke a story that caused more than one raised eyebrow and more than one blush on the part of Yale officials. It seems that this noble fellow was travelling one Sabbath afternoon, not so long ago along the road that leads by Gales Ferry. Whether he was out on assignment or wandering back from his Saturday night off, no one knows, but we shall give him the benefit of the doubt...
...production has the ring of authenticity, the small details having been apparently well taken care of. Quite evident is the fact that the picture has been produced under the new "spotless" regime, there being nary a line that could bring even a blush to your grandmother's cheek. The nearest approach is by Mercedes (Elissa Landt) who, when in the course of a discussion of Dante's qualifications for marriage it was remarked that he "had no family", coyly retorted that she "would give...
...included in its original program, was laid directly at the feet of the Gueorguieff government by the League of Nations last week. The pleasant fields of Bulgaria blush with roses from which perfume manufacturers extract essential oil, Bulgaria's best known product. Not so well known is another Bulgarian industry. League investigators of the international narcotic trade have often pointed an accusing finger at Bulgaria as one of the most important manufacturing sources of illegal opium and heroin. Last week came another League report on opium, and its charges against Bulgaria were stronger. Stuart J. Fuller...
...life by commuting Frank's sentence to life imprisonment. One attempt to kill Frank failed. The second, with young Bunce Napier at the wheel, succeeded. Frank was driven 110 mi. from the State penitentiary at Milledgeville to Marietta, hanged near Mary Phagan's birthplace. Decent Georgians still blush over the case...
...murders he retired at 64, five years ago (TIME, July 8, 1929). All these gentlemen were used to unraveling a shrewd, intelligent, well-constructed plot. Last week they suddenly found themselves flung into the middle of a nightmare of murders, suicides, plots and recriminations that any of them would blush to submit to the editor of a detective story magazine. Assembled at Dijon, they went down to the railroad track where the crushed body of Judge Albert Prince was found, puffed their pipes and pondered while Paris-Soir waited for their discoveries. Meanwhile the official agencies investigating what was rapidly...