Word: expelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finnish janitor was represented by a Negro defense attorney who at once pleaded the prisoner "guilty," appealed for mercy to the so-called Court. Anyone hearing this appeal might have supposed that the prisoner was in gravest peril. "Don't expel him from the party!" begged Negro Counsel Richard B. Moore (onetime Communist candidate for State's Attorney General). "Expulsion from the party is worse than death at the hands of the bourgeoisie! I would rather have my head severed by lynchers than be expelled from the Communist International...
Their parents paid for the damage and incidental expenses: $2,000. Headmaster Peabody said he would push prosecution no further. But Harvard authorities planned to deal with the vandals, probably expel them. Said Vandal Merriman: "It is no use to say I am sorry. Sorry is not the word. Nothing can express it." Said Vandal Jenkins: "We were drunk at the time and as we became drunker we lost all sense of the seriousness of the things we were doing. I was not actuated by spite at Groton. . . . My record there was good...
Each time a "lung"-equipped sailor left the escape compartment, water entered. Apparatus designed to expel such water temporarily failed. When the Lieutenant and newsreel men alone were left, the water was up to their waists. Suddenly the ship lurched, spread the water over storage batteries connected to the soundrecorder, generating deadly chlorine gas. The newsreel men choked, grew terrified...