Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final tremor of excitement was caused when Mayor Alfred N. Phillips Jr. (Milk of Magnesia) of Stamford, Conn, proposed that the mayors censure Stockbroker Edward F. Hutton for urging business to "gang up" on the New Deal (see p. 60). A Republican protested and Mayor Phillips was ruled out of order...
...makers must not show the manner in which a crime is committed. This story obeys the new rule by beginning at the end of a "perfect" kidnapping, picking up the kidnappers at the point where, receiving the ransom money, they begin their flight. A serious complication develops when the gang finds that a young couple have taken shelter in their hideout, a deserted farmhouse. In that simple interior and a few exteriors (the grounds of the house, the countryside around it) is played a drama so compact and terrifying it makes other G-men stories seem like Mother Goose. Although...
...count on much quiet British help and the Greeks are used to being over-awed by the warships of George V, the "Sailor King." To George II furious Greek Republicans issued a manifesto addressed to "George Glucksburg" and stating "you are only the leader and tool of a gang of terrorists...
...that scopolamine, like actual hypnosis, might dredge up forgotten facts from the unconscious. Police hesitated to use the stuff because it was fatal if mishandled and because evidence obtained by means of it was not directly admissible in court. In Birmingham, Ala., however, an alert district attorney cornered a gang of ax murderers by running down leads gained from scopolamine confessions. In Kansas City, an alert detective chief named Thomas Higgins heard about the Birmingham successes. Last fortnight he thanked his stars that he had. One morning Higgins' men were called to a room in a Kansas City apartment...
Yale's program is not yet available but Harvard's is as follows: Chorus from "Pattence" Gilbert and Sullivan "Ecce Jam Noctis" Chadwick "Tutti Venite Armatt" Gastoldi "Der Gang zum Liebchen" Brahma Sea Shanties Arranged by MeUhee...