Word: highly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crimes defined . . . shall be punished as herein prescribed: First, when committed upon the high seas. . . .-U. S. Criminal Code, Sect...
Walter Ringer (alias Charley Ringer, Franz Rudis, Max Walter Ketter, Charles Long), 39, 5 ft. 6 in., heavy set, broad shouldered, for stealing U. S. mail upon the high seas aboard the S. S. Leviathan last year. A linguist, he conducts novelty shops, cafés, works as a seaman or carpenter. Reward...
Returned to Florida in chains, piratical Alderman was tried under Sections 272, 273, 275 of the U. S. Criminal Code. In the name of the people of the U. S. in January 1928 he was convicted of murder on the high seas, sentenced by U. S. District Judge Henry D. Clayton to "be hanged by the neck until dead-dead-dead." Vainly did Alderman carry his case to the Supreme Court of the U. S., to President Hoover for clemency...
...mother has spoken of so often. It is a dull, wandering fiction, hardly made bearable by the good looks of Dolores (Mrs. John Barrymore) Costello. Most expected shot: the moment when the girl and her mother meet in a bar where the mother, who had lied about her high estate, has been swigging with sailors...
...diving contest staged for him. Once she won a medal by holding a smile longer than other competing actresses. She drives a Chrysler car, dresses in a room mounted on wheels, likes rice pudding, consults fortune tellers. Most of her pictures have been vapid dramas of high life, assigned to her because of her social background: Pleasure Mad, Broken Barriers, His Secretary, The Latest from Paris, Slave of Fashion...