Word: dwarfs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lawyer Hays and colleagues sniffed collusion between Tammany Hall and Fascist Italy. A defense fund was raised. Witnesses were guarded and supported. Pre-trial statements by the defense promised demonstrations on a scale that would dwarf the Sacco-Vanzetti spectacle if it were proved, as the defense said convictions would prove, that the Fascist League of America had enlisted pressure from the political overlords of the biggest city...
...eccentricities of the bad man are noteworthy. He worships weird, heathen deities while masquerading as a Caucasian Christian. He knows secret trap doors, cells, torture chambers, depraved henchmen. He keeps a dwarf brother locked up in a stifling cage. In short, he inspires the belief that if anything can be more astonishing than the cinema version of virtue, it is its conception of vice...
...aptitude of Professor Murray for this work can too easily dwarf the proportions of any potential successor. Such must not be the case. Fear must not allow the University to fail in gaining the full advantage of such an endowment by provoking an appointment from within. One of the clearest advantages of this professorship is that it brings to Harvard, in succeeding years, men from without whose viewpoint is it similar in intellectual background, different in that it has developed in another atmosphere among other scenes. It will not be impossible to find such men for this position, uniquely difficult...
...Jammu and Kashmir for two score years; in his palace at Srinagar (see Commonwealth). Died. Dr. George August Schweinfurth, 89, famed African explorer, in Berlin. Once he lived among the cannibals. In Central Africa he stumbled on the Pigmy "Akka" and proved to science that there had been a dwarf race in the tropics. Blunt, methodical, he had traveled into the heart of darkness; from Pharaoh tombs he had gathered flowers that blossomed two thousand years before Cleopatra...
...performed at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Wagner lovers, packed like olives, heard the great score greatly interpreted by Conductor Bodanzky, heard Frederick Schoor resonantly represent Wotan, Mme. Larsen-Todsen awake with sweet screams in her circle of fire, George Meader shiver with the impotent cunning of Mime, the dwarf. They witnessed, in addition, an accidental and well-nigh tragic incident which concerned Curt Taucher, tenor, who sang Siegfried, favorite of the Gods...