Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Verdict. After receiving a go-page charge from Judge Barnhill the jury retired. In an hour it came back, pronounced "guilty" upon Defendant Beal and his six codefendants...
...perhaps destiny called him to the Throne. Duty bade him proclaim the restoration of King Amanullah. Came a great warrior shout of "Nadir is our King!"-a pointed suggestion which, according to Mme Viollis, "the Conqueror heroically resisted." "If Nadir doesn't become King, we shall all go away!" chorused the tribesmen, or words to that effect. Still the Conqueror held temptation at bay, but after some further shouting he was seen to bow his head. After profound meditation he spoke huskily: "Allah is my witness, I did not want to become King! But I am the servitor...
...Booth-Hellberg, 61, stationed at Stockholm, where were her home and her husband's grave. Last week Lucy Booth-Hellberg, appointed to a station in South America, East, by General Higgins, sailed. Before she went she told 2,000 Salvationists meeting in London how little she wanted to go, explained that she had made her decision at her husband's grave, had written her letter of submission on his tombstone. Cried she: "My last home has been smashed up. . . . I had to leave my only child in Stockholm." Then, weeping, she went...
...latest story going the rounds about the Army game--barring the rather absurd charge about the game being two minutes too long--is about the Bowman-Gilligan collision, in which the former was knocked-out completely for an hour or so, being hit on a more vulnerable spot on his cranium than was Gilligan, who recovered in a minute or so. Just before swooning the plucky Cadet signal-caller is alleged to have said "Leave us sit down a minute, Tommy." We will not go bail for its absolute authenticity, but it is a nice little addition to the saga...
...matters are allowed to go on as they are and the operation of concessions be allowed to return certain individuals an income disproportionate to their efforts, there may well be a tendency for an overzealous Employment Manager to discriminate against athletes. While being faintly humorous such a situation would hardly be fundamentally sound and it is up to both organizations now responsible for the successful operation of the concessions to work out some carefully considered plan for the operation of the concessions which will obviate the abuses possible under the present arrangement...