Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When vigorous Dan Moody becomes Governor of Texas next month, he will find the jail population waning. The sympathetic heart of Governess Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson has been beating fast as the day of her political demise approaches. On Thanksgiving Day she pardoned 40 convicts; gave six furloughs, three paroles, two restorations of citizenship. During the 21 months of her governorship, Mrs. Ferguson has issued 2,645 clemency proclamations-a record for Texas...
Thumbing the slender volume, King Christian may well have reflected with warmth in his heart that he receives as King of Iceland some 60,000 kroner a year ($16,000) from his Icelandic subjects who thus retain their actual freedom while united, through the person of the King, with Denmark, their potent protectress...
...Temperamentally, through all the crucifixion of the months that preceded the tragedy of the murder of her husband and Mrs. Mills, this woman's bitter, salty tears must have flowed inward, drenching the wounds in her heart and soul...
August A. Busch had anticipated Prohibition by manufacturing "Bevo," a grain drink. Although his heart was not in its manufacture, he developed a great volume of sales for this brew. (He personally directs his company's advertising and promotion work; lays out campaigns; analyzes sales posbilities.) In making Bevo, he explained in last week's issue of Forbes: "We hardly proved ourselves prophets. We failed to diagnose correctly in advance the psychological reactions of the people to Prohibition legislation. We did not foresee the lessened respect for law which actually developed. We never anticipated the enormous increase which...
...from the Norwegian of Wiers-Jenssen, is not so happily inspired. It seems amorphous in character. Starting with the revelation that witchcraft was a medie val actuality, it proceeds to trace the growth of witch-power in young Anne Pedersdotter, second wife of the old village pastor, guilty sweet heart of his son. To satisfy her love, she casts the spell of death upon her old husband. Accused by her mother-in-law, she shrinks from the trial by touch and oath, confesses with a wail of misery and despair her witchcraft, goes to feed another Lutheran bonfire...