Word: chaires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Before my God I am innocent as a child unborn. I knew nothing about this thing until it was all over . . . !" The judge looked sharply at the great detective, who slumped back into his chair humiliated. The judge gazed out the window again, then made a long speech in a low voice. ". . . That he [Father Burns] knew of this surveillance I cannot doubt, and that he knew it from the time it began." The judge concluded: ". . . You are guilty of contempt of court. . . . Men of high character sometimes make mistakes. Your sentence is fifteen days in the Washington jail...
...stop there. Other eager cities were Winston-Salem, Montgomery, Birmingham. In New York, Candidate Smith pursued his policy of prayerful silence, hoping that Northern Negroes would understand why none of their race can be taken to Houston as delegates; hoping that the South will not mind if National Democratic Chair-man Clem L. Shaver should be ousted and replaced by Mayor Frank Hague of Jer sey City; hoping people noticed, last week, that John William Davis said: "Al Smith ... is highly acceptable to me;" hoping that it was wise to have let word go out, and it did go last...
...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN-In which a poor woman became a rich woman but not a pure woman and nearly went to the electric chair for it (TIME...
...Valley Forge ... a dreamer ... a man with a great vision. . . ."At last it became apparent who the man was. The audience cheered and clapped when a little white-haired clergyman, looking for all the world like a sly puppy, gave an uncertain, embarrassed smile, got up from his chair, tiptoed toward the centre of the stage, and took the ivory box. The little clergyman was the Rev. Dr. William Herbert Burk. He had been awarded the Bok Prize for founding and forwarding the Washington Memorial at Valley Forge...
Thomas "Red" Moran is young, anemic and a hardboiled yegg. A year ago, he murdered two policemen. When they tried him for this crime, he sneered at the judge. Said "Red" Moran: "I want to burn in the chair." The judge said he could have his wish...