Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convicted the Sheltons of the Collinsville robbery. Allied with the law for the duration of the Shelton trial, Charles Birger, sleek, suave, smartly-tailored, stepped into the witness' box, said, "Howdy, Sheltons!" spent 20 minutes swearing away 25 years of three men's lives. Beneath his well-cut coat he wore a steel-vest, bulletproof...
When the Queen-Empress returned from this function she found Baby Betty in a teething fret, with Nurse Knight attempting to sooth her. Three days later the Princess cut her first tooth...
...grave, stumbled, caused her to rouse and scold them roundly. Two years later, at her second wake, she sat up on the planks and scolded mourners for wailing. Thereafter she lived to have 31 operations. Neighbors were awed. Last week she died again, of cancer; and relatives, twice duped, cut two of her arteries...
...John Willard, who did The Cat and the Canary, has done this one badly in a trick yacht interior which rolls and pitches with uncanny naturalness. "How did this yacht party get cut adrift; and are these young lovers brother and sister; and who planted the bomb?" seems to be the plot. Sedative...
...being experimented with generally among the colleges and which was tried out last year at Yale. The whole tendency of these new regulations, appears to be towards a more up-to-date method of ascertaining whether a boy is able to got on at Yale, and away from old cut-and-dried methods, which as older graduates will recall, were a bone of contention between the University and its Western alumni a decade or more ago. We do not believe that any rule of thumb test, whatever it is called, will be of much use in discovering...