Word: crumb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while the charges against Maury's co-defendants were dismissed, leaving Maury to stand alone, his trial raged in a superheated courtroom. A defense witness accused Burkett of once saying he wanted to get rid of Maury. A feminine witness for the prosecution admitted having called Maury "a crumb." Maury's 14-year-old daughter drew a picture of a devil with a forked tail, labeled it "Gittinger" ("Buck" Gittinger, Shock's assistant). Judge Bryce Ferguson, "Ma" Ferguson's nephew, slumped down in his chair almost out of sight, looked up occasionally to quote from memory...
...Lung. Six years ago a middle-aged Pittsburgh physician with cancer of the lung made a long, painful journey to St. Louis to beg a crumb of hope from famed Surgeon Evarts Ambrose Graham.* Both doctors thought that death was inevitable, and Dr. Graham decided on a last, desperate measure, never before tried in the history of surgery: complete amputation of the cancerous lung in one stage. An incision was made down the sick man's back, beside and below his shoulder blade. Carefully Dr. Graham slit through tough chest muscles, removed sections of seven ribs, neatly severed...
...boardmen, it was being said, were present or onetime minions of the House of Morgan. By itself this circumstance would have been a nine-day wonder to be pondered and forgotten, along with Mr. Roosevelt's sundry other and short-lived flirtations with Business. What made it a crumb under the President's collar last week was the great debate on Neutrality in Congress...
...great many topics and covered a wide field," said the Prime Minister, in a voice so low that diplomats in the gallery had to crane to catch his words. But Mr. Chamberlain had apparently taken time enough to comb out of Hitler's formless harangue every conciliatory crumb of comfort it contained. These he singled out for special praise. "I very definitely got the impression," the Prime Minister went on, "that it was not the speech of a man who was preparing to throw Europe into another crisis. It seemed to me that there were many passages...
...Tossed a crumb to the starving railroads. Turning down a petition for a 10% rise in Pullman rates as "unreasonable," the Interstate Commerce Commission did consent to a 5% rise. This gave eastern roads new hope that ICC may look favorably on their renewed petition for higher coach passenger fares. Meanwhile last week, the railroad unions agreed to discuss the proposed 15% wage cut at a meeting July 20 and Class I roads as a group reported a net loss...