Word: documents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warrior got an exoneration from a New York State Senator who had been with him constantly at the Syracuse fair. He got a denial of the letter from its alleged writer and an evasion from its alleged recipient. Then he issued a document entitled: "Nailing a Lie in the Whispering Campaign...
Preceding Nominee Smith on the above itinerary went a mass of literature, sent out by the G. 0. P., to show that he had never been regarded by the New York farmers as an especial friend. The chief document was a map showing that, of New York's 57 rural counties (outside New York City) Governor Smith carried only two the first time he was elected, 13 the second time, one the third time, four the fourth time. New York City ("Tammany") was the only area he carried all four times...
They were referring to a document known as The Multilateral Treaty to Renounce War as an Instrument of National Policy-Author: Mr. Kellogg. The ship then moved...
...Significance. With the appearance of each volume of The Tale of Genji critics burst into frenzies of enthusiastic comparison: "Fielding's Tom Jones with music by Debussy" . . . "as if Proust had rewritten The Arabian Nights" . . . "Don Quixote with a dash of Jane Austen" . . . fortunately the ancient Japanese document is no such mongrel monstrosity as all of this. But the reviewers' floundering tributes indicate something of its variegated appeal. In limpid prose The Tale combines curiously modern social satire with great charm of narrative. Translator Waley has done service to literature in salvaging to the Occident this masterpiece...
When Mrs. Emma Marshall was sent to the penitentiary in Alabama, there to await execution, notions began slowly to revolve inside her head. She had been convicted of murdering her husband, because he, lying on his deathbed, had signed a document asserting that she (his Christian wife) had slain him. What possibility was there then that she could escape the law's severest penalty? Her husband was an atheist, remembered Mrs. Marshall; false-swearing by an atheist, even on a deathbed, promises no future punishment. An atheist is therefore considered more likely to be a liar than...