Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Fisher did not get excited about signing the release papers, many another individual did. Before dawn the next day a curious crowd began to collect before the great grim wall of the Eastern Penitentiary at Philadelphia to watch the Capone coming-out party. Policemen appeared, formed lines. When two closed vans rattled out of the prison gate, the crowd pressed forward with a common question, "Is Capone in there?" The Philadelphia Record spread a scare-headed story that Chicago gunmen were in town to "get" the prisoner when he emerged. The Warden informed newsmen that Capone had had scrambled...
Typical shot: Baxter lifting a little boy up to collect a kiss from his wife-a kiss for which, at a society fair, he has bid 20,000 francs...
Whatever the reaction of college newspapers to this particular plan may be, their immediate field is to collect opinion and facts before taking a stand on a definite program for either enforcement, repeal, or modification...
...producers of talking pictures confronted with the problem of pleasing foreign audiences. I think they will have to collect French and German casts and produce their pictures in three languages...
...several men, one of them a close relative, another a dear friend, who have received the Cross of the Legion of Honor. Without exception they have gotten to be Francophile. They have warmed up from cold or luke warm to hot in shouting that we oughtn't to collect from France what they certainly owe us! You know the men I mean-such as Myron Timothy Herrick. If Kaiser Wilhelm had given him the Iron Cross and if he had become as pro-German as he became pro-French, only Heaven knows what might have happened...