Word: brained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present dearth of technical knowledge blights her industrial development. But the day will come when inquiring spirits may question the economical and political bases of the system which nourished them. Then the proletarian whose passionate support made the Bolsheviki masters of Russia, and whose ranks supply the brain and brawn of the movement, may like Romulus and Remus, abandon the wolf who sucked them...
...income tax after one of those judges rolled over in bed one night and changed his mind and found unconstitutional the law which a short time prior he had held to be constitutional? How many of the men and women of the best heart and the best brain in this republic are today impressed with the sanctity and the infallibility of the Supreme Court decision on child labor, which held by a 5 to 4 vote that the law was unconstitutional? What critic has a right to say that the people have no right to resent and repudiate such...
...unflagging enterprise of political campaigning produced this little chorus to a campaign song for Senator LaFollette. One L. A. Orth fathered the brain child...
...days in New York when he himself set his feet on the downtown pavements and met the shock of the lawless." All this and more for ten cents per week. In his ransacking, Editor Flynn had accomplished the seemingly impossible task of discovering "a wholly new writer whose prolific brain can evolve and depict fresh, sparkling detective situations"-a man comparable, in Editor Flynn's mind, to Poe, Gaboriau, Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle. This rare being was none other than Richard E. Enright, Police Commissioner of New York City, a man whose "own career demonstrates that men are much...
...innocent. I know it. You may not know it, but I know it. I find a man in trouble. In a way his troubles may have come by his own fault. In a way they did not. He did not give himself birth. He did not make his own brain. He is not responsible for his ideas. He is the product of all the generations that have gone before. And he is the product of all the people who touch him directly and indirectly through life, and he is as he is, and the responsibility rests on the infinite...