Word: infernale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Brookhart defended himself: "No man can invite me to a dinner where crime is in evidence and say to me that because of his confidence as a host I shall conceal the crime. . . . That is the thing that makes trouble in this country . . . these infernal secret societies in high...
Followers of the Crime column may be proue to see in the recent taking of a mid-year examination purely for the fun of the thing the machinations of some infernal machine or robot. Certainly there is ground for the suspicion that no average undergraduate has been responsible for the...
Bennett was several times assaulted, horsewhipped or beaten up by persons who did not like his treatment of news. He always wrote an account of such matters in the Herald. An example: "As I was leisurely pursuing my business, yesterday, in Wall Street . . . James Watson Webb came up to me...
At this point a door opened and through it strode a tall, heavy man of magnificent carriage, instantly recognizable as John Pierpont Morgan. He was smoking a comfortably big meerschaum pipe, but his visage was not benign. He spoke: "This is an infernal outrage. . . . You fellows get along."
Came then the smash-sensation. "My client has been foully tortured," said Demetrio Sodi in a low tense voice. "When he revealed to me what the police had done, I was as nauseated as though I were beholding Doré's depiction of the infernal cycles of Dante'...