Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your escape. It seems unnecessary to say it, since everyone knows it, that you are beaten! Each day you prolong your resistance, each additional life you waste, every fresh home you sacrifice, each new crime you commit is a new count in the indictment you will be brought to face before our justice. For we have...
...Chinese fortnight ago drove the invaders out of Taierhchwang and chased them 20 miles back into Yihsien, brought down overwhelming Japanese reinforcements from Tsinan and Tsingtao last week. These raised the siege of Yihsien, from which 20,000 Chinese retreated, and approximately 150,000 Japanese effectives were said to face perhaps 400,000 Chinese along the broad "Chinese Hindenburg Line" paralleling the Lunghai Railway. Greatly alarmed, responsible Chinese newsorgans editorialized last week "Suchow is our Verdun," admitted that if Suchow is taken by the Japanese they will have a stranglehold on North Central China, gravely menacing Hankow...
Black, barrelhouse cabaret singers were not long in converting Frankie's exploit into a torchy part of the St. Louis saga, but Britt's mother somehow influenced them to leave her son's real name out of it. In the face of the publicity, Frankie fled St. Louis. To Kansas City, to Portland, Oregon, the song still pursued her. When eventually it began blaring out of the radio, she went a-lawing. By last week she was suing, among others, Mae West, Paramount Pictures, Republic Pictures, Robbins Music Corp. Her complaint: defamation of character; invasion...
...when the regular season got under way last week and Owner Ruppert still refused to budge a dollar, Junior Di Maggio suddenly realized that he was not only losing $162 for every day he was missing from the Yankee line-up but was losing face with his teammates and his public as well. Anxious to have a high mark in Conduct as well as in Homeruns, 23-year-old Joe Di Maggio finally capitulated, wired Owner Ruppert his surrender...
...call upon all editors ... to recognize a growing criticism, to face it fairly, to set their houses in order, to be governed by good taste, by a sense of justice, by complete devotion to the public interest, and to toil unceasingly to educate our readers to such a sense of the value of a free press in America that the citizens of this republic shall become the willing cooperators, the fellow warriors with us, in a never-ceasing fight for the maintenance of democratic institutions...