Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...July 23, 1934 death within a few months in 1692, eight being executed at once in a final demonstration which produced a public revulsion against the practice. The one pressed to death was Giles Cory, 80, who had refused to plead at trial. He was laid on the ground, bound hand & foot, and stones piled upon his body until his tongue protruded. The Sheriff poked Cory's tongue back inside with his cane...
...disorder. The newspapers, frightened by bomb threats, took an unequivocal stand. "The radicals," editorialized the Chronicle, "have seized control by intimidation. What they want is revolution. . . . Are the sane, sober workingmen of San Francisco to permit these Communists to use them for their purpose of wreckage, a wreckage bound to carry the union down with...
...propaganda in the U. S. was just a mistake and futile. That it was bad business. That complete reliance should be placed on getting news to the American people through normal channels of publicity. ... I told them that there were certain policies which Germany had [on Jews] which were bound to antagonize American public opinion and to attempt to secure favorable American opinion toward them?such attempts would be futile and, in the second place, objectionable. ... In the very beginning I stipulated that there should be no dissemination whatever by me of information in the U. S. . . . I never distribute...
Optimist. From Toronto, where he had attended the Optimists Clubs convention, flew Alex Mokher last week, bound for Florida and home. With him in the family cabin plane were his wife, his daughters Marjorie, 16. Dorothy, 9. Over Lexington, Ky., Father Mokher lost his bearings, decided to ask directions. Circling low over a country store, he slowed his motor, shouted to the proprietor. To hear better he circled lower, grazed a tree, struck some telephone wires, crashed. Of the Mokhers only Dorothy survived...
...Hollywood. British-born, he deserted the law for which he had been educated, played in stock companies, served as a nurse in the Spanish-American War, tried farming in the Midwest, drifted into the early cinema. A pious churchman in private life, he played wise, kind, whimsical oldsters (Outward Bound, Arrowsmith, The Case of Sergeant Grischa...