Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slightest official indication that the case has taken an unfavorable turn for the condemned men, but both the prisoners themselves and their defense committee had seemingly lost faith in Governor Fuller and his advisory committee. The most striking evidence of their pessimism had been the continuation of their hunger strike. Mr. Sacco had been on his hunger strike since July 17; Mr. Vanzetti had been virtually fasting for the same period, though he at least drank coffee during the first few days of the strike, at one time ate a full meal, and last week brought his hunger strike...
...have been encouraged to hope for pardon or commutation. But last week's events, though not necessarily conclusive, led many observers to believe that the death sentence imposed on Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti would be carried out or would be only partially commuted by being changed to life imprisonment. Hunger Strike. Both Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti spent the week virtually without food, having begun a hunger strike which, in Mr. Sacco's case, was still continuing at last reports. Hunger eventually conquered Mr. Vanzetti's starvation program. During the first two days of their abstention from food...
...Reverend A. F. Hickey opened the symposium with a short address in which he emphasized the need of religion in education. "The dominant human hunger is for truth," he said, "and the basic truth is the existance of God. The appreciation of the existance is the start of human joys." He concluded in saying that religion and education should always work together...
...Secretary Hoover may say, "Increasing population will force the United States to advance in scientific discovery or to lower its standard of living." No matter. We will meet all obstacles and surmount them. Knibbs and Pearl, speaking as sociologists, may point out that the pitifully short lives full of hunger and misery endured by the peoples of China and India, and the economic disturbances of Western Europe, are due in large measure to high population density. What of it! It can never happen...
...Alec (Kenneth Thomson), he herds his woolly treasure on scorched hills. Into their baked monotony the son brings his bride, a young dancing girl of quick spirit (Jetta Goudal). The maddening sun drives them all to exasperation, so that when a tramp herder (George Bancroft), driven by hunger for the bride, forces his way into the room Alec left in a huff, tragedy stalks along with him. The film comes as near to genuine tragedy as anything the season has witnessed. For that reason, it may prove unpopular...