Word: friendly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...were not a crap-shooting, Jazz-singing jury, like the one that tried Mr. Fall and Oilman Edward L. Doheny two years ago. Miss Bernice Heaton, the telephone instructress, for example, would ride home from court on a trolley car and go out for the evening with a girl friend. Edward K. Kidwell, the leather worker, would go off and kill time between sessions hanging around a soft-drink stand in Four-and-a-Half Street...
Action. The District of Columbia Grand Jury (23 members) foregathered. Mr. Sinclair's friend, Mr. Day, who looks "like a well-groomed football tackle," was asked to explain his connection with the Burns men. He refused to answer, on the paradoxical but wholly legal ground that in explaining he might incriminate himself. He was arrested and placed under a $25,000 bail...
...with lung congestion, again called attention to "my integrity and the complete rectitude of my every action in connection with the Teapot Dome lease." He disavowed any connection with any "jury-hanging" plot. Nevertheless, it was discovered that one of his counsel, Lawyer Mark Thompson, had telephoned a friend of Mr. Fall's at the U. S. Department of Justice to "look up the record" of a colleague who was being sleuthed by the Burns...
Senator Osmena, also a mestico (half caste), exhibits his Chinese extraction in his importunable demeanor, impeccable manners and enduring patience. He has not always agreed with his headlong young friend, being content to guide Filipino destinies slowly as Speaker of the Assembly for almost 20 years. He would be more content than Manuel Quezon to see Philippine Independence come in three steps instead of at a bound. The three steps might be: 1) Civilian administration by the U. S.; 2) "Philippine Free State" with a U. S. High Commissioner; 3) Independence...
...Baker's friend, Secretary Munson Havens of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, is the author of a concise and accurate sketch of Mr. Baker: "His resemblance to Charles Lamb, Voltaire and Mephistopheles is amusing; but his eyes, if not finer, are more kindly than Satan's. He works all day and reads all night in law and literature. His garden abuts upon a golf course; but on Sunday (summer) afternoons he weeds, unperturbed by the passing of derisive foursomes. He is an author of the truest quality and his voice?a voice of liquid gold?is lent to every civic...