Word: conned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official statement from the University was forthcoming on the recent difficulties of the Dramatic Club and no announcement either pro or con has been made as yet. It was understood, however, from unofficial sources, that the University is not expected to ban the production...
...another's throats. Fascist against Communist, he forbade the newsboys to hawk their papers by name. Hereafter they may shout only "morning pa- per" or "evening paper." Finally he got the Cortes to allow him 27,000 more Civil and Assault Guards and got a vote of con- fidence for his Cabinet, 148 to 24. To Alfonso Bourbon y Asturias, no longer King of Spain but still an Austrian Archduke. Duke of Burgundy and Count of Habsburg. all this was but a faint rumor. Last week he was deep in the Sudan, hunting lion and buffalo...
...Slavery Pro and Con," Mr. Buck, New Lecture Hall...
With the calm of a great surgeon, which he is, President Dr. Ramon Grau con tinued last week to sign breath-taking decrees in the small hours of the night. Scratch-the Presidential pen dismissed famed Manhattan Lawyer Thomas L. Chadbourne, author of the Chadbourne Plan of world sugar crop restriction from his post as President of the Cuban Na tional Sugar Exporting Corp. (see p. 48). Official reason: "Mr. Chadbourne is a foreigner." Scratch-Surgeon Grau signed an agra rian decree bestowing on every "indigent farmer" in Cuba 33 acres of land, a yoke of oxen...
...flat policeman tread of any cheerful murder story. David Saunders, narrator of the tale, was a poor hard-working student at the Altonville State Medical School. Like most others, he admired Dr. Wyck's brains, disliked his brutality. But in spite of small-town rumor he never con sidered Dr. Wyck crazily evil until the terrified behavior of one of Dr. Wyck's patients gave him a clue. When the patient went insane with fear, when the first symmelus (monster with lower extremities fused) was born at the hospital, David was beginning to put a misty...