Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cashier. Dick Gallogly drove the getaway car. Another student fired the shots, confessed that he and his partner had robbed and killed "for the thrill." After two mistrials, Dick pleaded guilty, and along with rich George ("Junie") Harsh of Milwaukee was imprisoned for life. His grandmother moved heaven and earth and the Journal did its bit to get Dick out, failed to persuade three successive Governors to parole or pardon him. Pampered in prison but ailing, Dick Gallogly in a hospital last May married 23-year-old Vera Hunt, a onetime schoolteacher who met him while visiting a Georgia prison...
...This I ask: If forty-six million Englishmen claim the right to rule over forty million square kilometers of the earth, it cannot be wrong for eighty-two million Germans to demand the right to live on 800,000 square kilometers, to till their fields and to follow their trades and callings, and if they further demand the restitution of those colonial possessions which formerly were their property, which they had not taken away from anybody by robbery or war but honestly acquired by purchase, exchange and treaties. Moreover, in all my demands, I always first tried to obtain revisions...
...weeping widow stood at her husband's grave. Suddenly out of the graveyard solitude came a voice. She listened, caught the word Reds-over & over, louder & louder. A little alarmed but more curious, she picked her way along the row of tombstones, came upon a mound of fresh earth. Peering around it, she discovered the source of the strange voice: a portable radio was keeping a pair of gravediggers posted on what was going en at Crosley Field five miles away...
Watson claims that if the display taken place during the day time, "We'll just be out of luck." In that case the next sky display will not take place until 1946 when the earth may hit the comet of which these meteors are only the tall...
...story of individual taste which has and will remain unchanged. But there is one new standard of critical truth which must not be overlooked, no matter how greatly individual tastes may vary: art is beginning to have political and social implications; it is becoming closely intertwined with the earth upon which we walk and the lives which we lead. Consequently, since art is in the process of adopting us, it is only fair that it adopt, to some extent, the ethical pattern within which we exist. Despite the fact that Epstein's interpretation of ADAM does...