Word: detainer
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Those hardy souls who, if a loftier goal than mere enjoyment did not detain them in Cambridge, would be enjoying the sled runs of Chamonix the toboggan slides of Quebec or even the ski jump at Hanover, can now find a slightly milder joy on the river. From the Lars Anderson Bridge up to Watertown the ice is frozen, and one may choose whether he will frequent the brightly-lighted, windswept expanse near Newell, or go adventuring among the dark coves beyond the infirmary...
...January, a plenary session of the Nationalist party congress?to concoct war plans. Since there was danger, however, that some of the minority delegates might slip away, thus making it impossible for the leaders to obtain a quorum, the military police of Nanking were instructed, last week, to detain forcibly any delegate who sought to leave the city...
...great care to use peaceful methods. Weapons were forbidden. U. S. flags, usually carried by children, headed their processions. Women joined the marches to mines which were still operating, notably a Mrs. Santa Bernash of Trinidad, whose most famed exploit was scratching and rumpling some guards who tried to detain her at a bridgehead near Ludlow.* Her followers pitched two of the guards into Bear Creek. She was arrested, jailed, and to take her place at the marching picketers' head came her sister, Amelia Siblich, called "Flaming Milka" for the bright red dress she wore...
...Springboard. If ever critics by dozens are found foully murdered in their beds the police will logically detain Sidney Blackmer as the first suspect. Mr. Blackmer, who has played some parts excellently, is subject to an almost annual avalanche of freezing abuse. This year, he deserves it. He is employed as a devastating lover. He marries the girl. He continues devastation, elsewhere. She sues for divorce. He repents. She repents. Curtain...
...When the authorities sought to make inquiry a British cruiser appeared and interfered. It threatened the villagers on both shores with cannon. The Chinese authorities were obliged to detain the British merchant vessels, taking the matter up with the British Consul at Chungking...