Word: going
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...massed in angry clots and put on a show that caught the attention of many a delegate, unseemly though it became at times. Crippled veterans were paraded in wheelchairs; elderly women knelt in the street to recite the Lord's Prayer. Pickets yelled: "Why don't you go back to Russia, you stinking Commies...
Herman was the first of the Barkers to go. He got his in 1927, the day after a stickup in Newton, Kans. His body was found in the weeds on the outskirts of Wichita. Ma and Freddie were next, shot down after a blazing FBI siege at Oklawaha, Fla. in 1935, a year after they, Doc and Alvin ("Old Creepy") Karpis pulled off the $200,000 kidnaping of St. Paul Banker Edward Bremer...
Highest praise must go to the principals. The generally high quality of both singing and acting fully compensates for the absence of big names. Brian Sullivan sings the tenor role of Grimes with understanding realism, and Ellen Orford, the widow schoolmistress, is touchingly played by Polyna Stoska...
...Harvard intellectuals who go along with the Communists have "one common altruistic dream," adds Griffin, namely that "they all share the vision of a one world utopia...
Watson said that no profit will be allowed from the Bendixes, which will be coin-operated. All revenue from the machines must go to the House Committee, rather than to a private company, and the committee must use all the money for expenses and maintenance. It will also have to pay the University for electricity and water...