Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening. Dr. Thinh took down a French medical book from a row in his small private office, opened it to a chapter on hangings. Then he took a piece of thin copper wire, twisted it into a neat noose. Next morning, Buddhist Thinh, in whose religion suicide is the supreme reproach against unjust criticism, was found dead...
Herbert, who has spent eleven years in Parliament as Independent Member for Oxford University, weaves into each chapter a theme of "words-not swords." "The English, long ago, made up their minds that it was better to decide things by talking than by cutting off people's heads, which...
...marry one of his admiring correspondents, Madame Eve de Hanska, a wealthy noblewoman from the Ukraine. She gave him the position he had scrambled for all his life, but he died only five months after their marriage. Balzac's 17-year courtship was the most violent chapter in the fantastically turbulent novel that was his own life. Readers will wish that Stefan Zweig had kept himself alive long enough to have finished the proper telling...
Meeting in Emerson Hall, 150 members of the chapter argued the motion for half an hour, following its presentation by the Veterans Affairs Committee which was evenly split on this phase of policy. The final vote was heavily in favor of the plan, which at this time would call for a general raise in veterans' allowances...
Final action was taken on a proposal to change the chapter's constitution to prohibit new business not on the agenda from being brought up from the floor. The motion for amendment was narrowly defeated...