Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grynszpan is saved from the guillotine it will make Clarence Darrow's snatching of Leopold and Loeb from the gallows seem like a successfully pleaded traffic case. However, Miss Thompson was able, with $10.000 (213.000 francs) in hand, to hire the Clarence Darrow of the Paris bar, the great Maitre Vincent de Moro-Giafferri, a fiery Paris-born Corsican who in the Herriot Cabinet of 1926 was Lender Secretary on Technical Instruction...
will also endeavor to make what contribution they can to the urgent need of facilitating emigration from Germany." Meanwhile, almost unnoticed during the week, the Anglo-Italian Treaty of last April was brought into effect and King-Emperor George VI with his own hand signed the credentials of British Ambassador Lord Perth to Italy's now-recognized King-Emperor Vittorio Emanuele...
Conditions grew so chaotic that the editors of the Government newsorgan Izvestia took a hand, invited officials to confer with them, later devoted three columns to shocking revelations and a blunt analysis of what was wrong in the Agriculture Commissariat. Izvestia blamed everything on the lack of a "single coordinating authority which would direct the work in a rational way." Higher officials were wasting their time in endless conferences which brought no results. Sleepy workers were staying on their jobs sometimes 24 hours a day, fearful of showing a "lack of zeal." Said Izvestia: "Real work usually begins after...
...race against whom all had been done that could be done short of mass murder, the Berlin Zwoljuhrblatt screamed: "Woe to the Jews if another helper is paid or incited by them and raises his murderous hand against a German...
Fingers-from Toes. Dr. Herbert van Heekeren Thatcher of Portland, Ore., told his colleagues how he mends severed finger tendons without impairing the grasping function of the hand. First he slips a stainless steel rod, three-sevenths of an inch in diameter and curved to fit the natural bend of the finger, into the narrow sheath which encloses the torn tendon...