Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...escorted them down the back stairs to return them to jail, it was relief. The Court had assigned counsel to defend them, set a date for trial by jury. Everything was according to law. But when they stepped out of a side door of the courthouse, they found themselves face to face with what so often handles cases like theirs in the South. An angry mob surged forward, took them from the custody of their guardians without a struggle, threw them into a school...
Agent Baker stepped up, drew his gun and ordered Alfred Power to put up his hands. Blam! A bullet struck Agent Baker in the back, he spun around to face the bandit's unnoticed companion, Robert Suhay, began to fire. Another bullet struck him in the chest, two in the legs. He crumpled. An innocent bystander, hit in the foot, flopped under a writing table beside a scared little Negro woman. Twenty rounds were exchanged before the two bandits fled, vanished...
...open the door into the cellar darkroom where Gerald practices his hobby of photography. After the storm of rage which her visit provokes, audiences are not totally unprepared for the shock which comes to Carol when, examining a book about famous unsolved crimes, she recognizes her husband's face under a fringe of sandy whiskers in the portrait of a man who has killed three women by marrying them and luring them to cozy country pieds-à-terre. Or for what ensues when Gerald invites Carol to come downstairs and help him tidy up the darkroom...
...bulk than for complexity. He uses a pack of 25 cards bearing five designs-a circle, a star, a plus sign, a rectangle, a band of three wavy lines-and there are five cards of each design in the pack. For clairvoyance, the pack is thoroughly shuffled, laid face down on a table, and the subject is required to call them off in order from top to bottom. In telepathy, he is required to guess the card visualized in the mind of an agent. Since at every step there is a choice of one among five, the subject should make...
Potent guardian of these and 39 other lines, comprising the most important Lakes shippers, is the Lake Carriers Association of Cleveland, which trains seamen, presses harbor development, hires icebreakers and employs Newton D. Baker as general counsel. In the face of the new amendments to the Seaman's Act of 1915, requiring a three-watch system on all freighters, which will add about 20% to lake crews this year the Association this spring hiked wages back nearly to 1929 levels, beginning at $87 a month for common seamen. Holding out for still higher pay, however, Detroit sailors last week...