Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...palpable lie, and appeared to arouse little credulity for certain of his statements. When some 2,000 pages of testimony had been taken from numerous witnesses, the case of Scotland Yard was summed by Sir Henry Honywood Curtis-Bennett: "I do not want it supposed that the police have done anything of which they are ashamed. ... If you impute bad faith to these officers of Scotland Yard, everything becomes possible. But if you assume that there are at Scotland Yard certain traditions of honor not likely to be broken, then other matters become much clearer...
Huskies Hired. Leaving the Rector, at last, Mr. Warren hired husky masons and tried to rush his stones into place. Before this could be done Monsignor Ladeuze got an injunction, called out police, hired his own huskies, and superintended the placing of his own set of stones, while Architect Warren fumed with impotence...
...founders of the trans-Atlantic telephone service expected that their income would come largely from business men who want things done efficiently, and in a hurry. But, last week, Frank Baldwin Jewett, vice president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., president of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, revealed that 43% of the trans-Atlantic phone calls have been of a social or frivolous nature, that 28% were miscellaneous, human interest calls, that 25% were business calls between bankers and brokers, that only 1% were between newspapermen...
...from his viewpoint as a Jew he can but recognize as failure that tragic climax on the cross, which centuries of religious enthusiasts have eulogized as victory, and even the "higher criticism" of late years has diagnosed as the wise choice of One who knew that more could be done by dramatic death than by further years of heckled, fugitive life...
This is, far and away, the most convincing thing that has been done by the talking cinema. Mr. Shaw's voice was clear, natural, and perfectly synchronized with his facial movements...