Word: due
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handing down his decision Judge Solomon said: "Due to the fact that the defendant inflicted pain upon his victim by suspending him head downward and beating him to death, he likewise should suffer pain...
...sudden rise to publicity of Victim and Victor caught the book trade unaware. Clerks went scurrying around looking under counters to see if they had any in stock. The novel was published last December by the Religious Book Department of Macmillan Co. It was reviewed in due course. Here and there a big-time reviewer was favorable but there was no concerted beating of the tomtoms such as heralds a volume bound for success of esteem and money...
...least. "The newspaper speaks to me," he stormed, "as if it were a government of equal power!" His reply was to expel the Tribune's correspondent, George Seldes,* thus preventing potent, four-fisted, he-publishers Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson from executing their threat. In due time the "World's Greatest Newspaper" calmed down and sent other representatives to Moscow who have submitted tamely to the Red censorship for several years. Last week, however, the dander of Chicago's McCormick was again...
...Connor has studied the question for the past few years and has been active as a newspaper correspondent at the State House at Boston for as long a period. In the most recent aspects of the situation Mr. O'Connor is well fitted to deal with the question due to the fact that he was consulted by those men proposing the pending resolution calling for an investigation...
...first bridge above the Lars Anderson, has always been a favourite one with the Vagabond-but it should be avoided when the ground is soggy or the wind is blowing form the southwest over the abattoir. Perhaps it was because neither of these desiderata obtained, or perhaps due to the proximity to the Mt. Auburn Cemetery, that the Vagabond was set to musing on the eternal brevity of all things in general, and the period between then and his examinations in particular. But the sun shone too brightly and the breeze wafted too softly for such morbid reflections, so that...