Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Serri, said: "His recital of the bootleggers' game is astonishing to the court, and I cannot understand how any reputable attorney could have such first hand information. . . . In my country had you made such an accusation against an officer of the law he would have smashed your face before you got out of the court room." Continuing, he suggested that Mrs. de Luca should move out of the Negro neighborhood in which she lives, that she was unfortunate in her choice of counsel. The "atmosphere of a United States Court is novel to him." Then he climaxed: "Your client...
That Charles Wakefield Cadman was considering the cinemas came as surprising news. He writes orthodox music; the Metropolitan Opera produced his Shanewis. His principal resemblance to Composers Berlin and Gershwin is in his face: the three men have aqueline, bony faces, high foreheads, strong jaws. Musically, the three are scattered. The two Jews write so that people sing their songs. Cadman, although by no means profound, writes for listeners. The Gershwins and Berlin are in the market places, night clubs; he in the parlor and concert hall. Berlin is admittedly no musician. But Gershwin is. And both are nimble tumblejacks...
...height as 38 inches. Scowling and cursing, the little monstrosity was dragged into court where he dodged under a chair and remained hidden for 15 minutes. When hauled out Max Sussar claimed that he was "only the lookout" for his gang. Twisting his pitiful face into a look of rage, he sat in a chair, swinging his let's. "I like rye whiskey and women," he told reporters...
John Jerome Gorman, onetime (1921-23 and 1925-27) Congressman, and chief investigator of history books, wrote a letter to Mayor Thompson about it. "It is a notable victory in the face of tremendous odds," he said. "To you belongs the credit. It. may be that in certain quarters you will not be accorded your credit for this victory . . . but when the permanent imperishable record is written for all time, history will proclaim, your achievements...
...further promise and declare that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly and openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Masons, as I am directed to extirpate them from the face of the whole earth. And that I will spare neither age, sex nor condition, and that I will hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle, and bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women, and crush their infants' heads against the walls in order to annihilate their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly I will secretly...