Word: drag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Metropolitan Police continued to drag the river near the West Boston bridge, where the student's coat and watch were found...
...return to do a play on Broadway, sponsored by her Philistine boss. But David Kingsley a sensitive fellow who regrets having sold his soul to the latter potentate, persuades the man to discard his vapid beauty and give Terry Randall (Miss Bennett) an audition. They come around at midnight, drag Terry out of bad, and Mr. Gretzl (the producer), blows cigar smoke in her face. The unhappy young woman breaks down in a fit of coughing and chagrin, but all is saved when her sensitive friend throws off his bondage, buys the play, and takes her over professionally and personally...
...argued so long that the Albanians had already arrived and begun their slaughter and rape before he could be convinced. Lena's next move ought to have opened his eyes to how much she cared. She cut her cheek, ripped her clothes half off, instructed him to drag her through the streets to avoid suspicion that he was not one of the pillagers. He did his best to follow instructions, got cut off every time only because he was not thoroughgoing enough. Once they passed a Serbian prisoner who spotted part of De Queslain's French uniform. This...
...Thomas Jordon, living in Mount Vernon, N. Y., and wishing to get married wrote to inquire whether he was still under suspicion. Two Federal officers went to question him, obtained a confession. He was tried for murder, repudiated his confession (which he said had been obtained by threats to drag his fiancee into the case) and convicted. Five times reprieved, he was still in the death house awaiting execution last May when Franklin Roosevelt, trolling for tarpon off Texas, received a letter from Newshawk Philip H. Love of the Washington Star. Newshawk Love reported that, preparing himself to write about...
...record did him no harm with future voters. As a lieutenant in the Argonne he was severely wounded, twice decorated. He returned from the War a rabid antimilitarist. When he went into politics he soon became known as a forceful speaker of the old knock-'em-down-&- drag-'em-out school. Since those days he has had a change of heart, believes now in plain speaking, but "the politician of today cannot afford to be a bore, and by the same token he cannot afford to affect the incomprehensible jargon of the professor." Maverick thinks Tugwell...