Word: dead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true that I violated an old Cambridge ordinance forbidding free distribution of printed matter on the streets. I wanted to know whether the law was a dead letter or a threat over the heads of radicals. If the former, I thought it should be repealed; if the latter, I wanted the public to know...
Detectives pondered the clues. The marauders' organized precision reminded crime-wise officials of the methods of James Nannery, "Bronx Badman." When some of the witnesses identified his picture in the rogues' gallery, imperative orders went out for his capture, dead or alive...
...worth. Mrs. Raymond Allen Van Clief was bereft of a $200,000 pearl necklace. Frank Burkett Baird, builder of the Peace Bridge between Buffalo and Canada, uncle of one of the 100 guests, offered a reward of $5,000 each for the robbers alive, $10,000 each dead. His explanation: "If authorities are forced to resort to gunfire then the reward should be greater...
Critic Huneker's day was already dead. The shades of Europe's mauve decade had become old-fashioned memories; Huneker's men of the hour were but ghosts. It is significant that not a single subject of these selected essays was a U. S. citizen. "Essentially and inescapably civilized" is what Editor Mencken calls Critic Huneker, by way of congratulating him on being, in effect, European...
Nothing to say had Editor Weitzenkorn last week as post mortem over his dead editorial hopes. The tone of Publisher Macfadden's sheetlet had not been perceptibly raised. The Graphic was still the pornoGraphic...