Word: held
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through the tall corn rows a gun was fired close by. Johnny Kolesar, riddled with shot, died that evening. The two Klementoviches were also struck. Johnny's sister identified Craig Hoffman as "the man in the brown pants" who fired the shot. Hoffman was hustled off to jail, held without bail...
...police as The-Man-Who-Killed-Rothstein, would be brought to trial on Oct. 15. Last week New Yorkers were disappointed to hear that the trial had been postponed to Nov. 12. For, said Judge Charles C. Nott Jr., city magistrate, "under no circumstances" would the trial be held while the election was still pending and the case remained a political football. Judge Nott, a Republican, is no Tammany man. Tammany opponents nevertheless flayed the postponement...
...Sklarek brothers came from the East after the War, have been prominent figures in Berlin's night life. Where bands blared loudest, where dimples were deepest, there were the Sklareks. Head waiters understood that the bounteous brothers held valuable contracts from the Berlin municipal government for clothing, uniforms, hospital linen. Unfortunately Sklarek commissions could not keep up with the cost of Sklarek champagne. The Sklareks "arranged" for cash advances to the sum of $2,000,000 from Berlin's municipally operated City Bank...
...students of a great national institution, truly representative in its membership of the whole country irrespective of section, creed or class; whose traditions for the century and a quarter since its foundation have been so closely identified with the progress and development of the country that its graduates have held high places with their contemporaries of Harvard, Yale and the other older colleges...
...Hudson was a necessity. Should loyal New England sons hold this tiny plateau, the Colonies would not be out in two; should Britain force this key point, she might easily reduce the two parts of the infant Republic. West Point was fortified by New York farmers, garrisoned, and held until the end of the Revolution...