Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lawyer Kresel still holds the headlines and double columns of the press. Yesterday's type, however, bore a slightly different tune, that of the prosecutor pleading "not guilty" to charges of misappropriating funds of a now deceased bank. And as Mr. Kresel was formally indicated with promises of a speedy trial, the baited judiciary may have relaxed...
...team began its winter season last week by winning the foils, epee, and saber events of the annual Amateur Fencers League of America prize tournament. In the first of these events B. B. Wesselman '31, H.C. Cassidy '31, and J.D. Allen, Jr., '31, bore off the first, second, and third prizes, respectively, and tied for first place in number of the victories won. In the epee, K. R. Ludlam '33 was the winner while R. B. Lawson '32 was awarded the first prize in the saber, third place falling to H. B. Walker '33. The Harvard entrants scored their wins...
...will speak to each individually as if in real life. His speech will begin: "Now that I am dead, I claim the right to speak to you impartially. ..." He will point out faults and virtues of one & all, concluding: "And now, my dear nieces, nephews and friends, I will bore you no longer. ... To save unpleasant lawsuits my solicitors will now read you a will in similar terms which you will find drawn up, testified and witnessed in correct legal manner...
...famous speech as it came over the telegraph from the convention hall in Chicago. I read it to a great crowd of citizens who stood on the street below-on Newspaper Row-Fourth Street between Nicollet and First. When he grew grass in the streets of the cities and bore down upon the brow of labor his Cross of Gold I was more excited than I ever have been at a football game. I nearly fell into the street from the window sill. Later I traveled with him while he campaigned through some of the western states...
Manhattan Island's flinty length is skewered by two sets of tubes, its flat back mounted by three great overhead structures. The tubes all duck under the East River, bore deep into Brooklyn. One is run by Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. The other, a two-pronged affair stretching to The Bronx, is controlled by Interborough Rapid Transit Co. which also operates the elevated lines. New York City owns the tunnels and tracks, rents them under long-term leases to the operating companies...