Word: commands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a priest mailed the loose-leaf cartoon to the Editor of TIME and many another. Although green in the Soviet original, the body of the Saviour was blue in the Papal reproduction, but the original caption was retained, Christ's command: "Take ye and eat?This is my body...
...Colosimo, big restaurant and brothel man. Prohibition started to create a public demand for liquor. Gangs were formed to supply the demand, to beat off rivals. Capone began as a brothel keeper, which started his police record with a $50 fine. In 1923 Colosimo was murdered. Torrio took command of the liquor and vice gang, Capone becoming his No. 1 assistant. Fierce was the hostility between the South Side gang under Torrio and the North Side gang under Dion O'Banion. In 1924 O'Banion was shot down in his florist shop. A few months later Torrio was mangled with...
...conventional musical instruments of the times. Although the action is easy to follow, the audience will be given translations prepared by two Club members. Out of the dust of many years, the illimitable swaggerer and beggar, man of the world and man in the street will emerge and command a modern interpretation. It is rumored that the ghost of old Plautus himself, lured from his pleasant Roman Hell by the familiar setting, will chuckle in the wings to frighten the censor...
...deaf that his intimates must shout close to his ear, so old that diet and digestion are matters of hourly concern to him, so famed that his stalest bromides on national questions can command national attention and respect (see p. 16), Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, 83, continued last week a living though not a lively man, plodding on with life's-end work in his Fort Myers, Fla., winter laboratory. Whether or not he lives to accomplish his latest work?finding a new source of rubber?he had lived to see a semi-official national celebration of his first great...
...King of the Vikings, came in his dragonships with 10,000 men. Altogether these Crusaders numbered some 280,000, of whom 250,000 died before they won Jerusalem. Nominal leader was Hugh, Count of Vermandois, who proved better at speaking than at fighting; then Godfrey of Bouillon took actual command, was first across the walls when they stormed Jerusalem. Other notables: lackadaisical Duke Robert Short Breeches of Normandy, red-haired Bohe-mund, Tancred, "finest sword of the Normans," the first to see Jerusalem; Raymond of Toulouse, Stephen of Meaux, Bishop Adhemar, jovial priest, stout-hearted soldier, Peter the Hermit...