Word: inquisitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people are a little slow if they are just discovering that the House Plan is really a definite matter after all. Last Spring the News gave out a great deal of information about the Plan as it was then being formulated, but nobody except the News and the Inquisitor had anything to say, except that maybe the Administration knew what it was about. Naturally, the News supported the Plan, because it always tries to ferret out and represent "undergraduate opinion...
...unfortunate part of the whole situation is that now the House Plan is going to be tried out, and nothing that anybody says this year will stop things. Last Friday the inquisitor did his best to point this out and put people at case, or at least to prevent a lot of wasted effort, but to no avail, evidently. They are still harping on the House Plan and the failure of the News to represent undergraduate opinion when there wasn't any to represent. Well, it doesn't hurt anybody and it may do some good in waking the place...
...years. There, in the cancerous association of evil men, he learned the criminal code. Six years later, when he happened to witness a murder within the prison walls, he refused to "squeal'' and was hurled to the dungeons for the third degree. Harassed, broken, he slew his inquisitor and himself. He did not know that the warden had signed an order for his pardon...
Secretary Work renewed the contract. Last week, after the contract had been voided by Attorney General Sargent, Dr. Work cited a letter written by Senator Walsh last winter in which the Inquisitor had said: "I am unable to understand how the Government can escape the obligation to renew the contract. . . ." Dr. Work apparently ignored or failed to comprehend the whole import of what Senator Walsh had said. For Senator Walsh had qualified his view that the option was inescapable, by saying: ". . . except it [the U. S.] treats it [the lease] as void or voidable." Senator Walsh's opinion...
...National G. O. P. Chairman Work and Attorney General Sargent with Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair and politics (see p. 7). People were waiting to hear what the chief Democrat would say about that. They heard that he was telephoning long distance to Senator Walsh of Montana, the Democratic oil inquisitor...