Word: interwoven
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...Market Street, killed ten people, wounded 40 others. Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings, labor agitators, were convicted of the crime, went to jail for life. Their trials were later shown to have been honeycombed with perjured evidence against them. Judge & jury recommended their pardon. The case became interwoven with State politics. Governor after California Governor was implored by large sections of organized Labor, the Press and the Pulpit to set justice to rights by releasing Mooney & Billings. Though 15 years of prison life have greyed them to pathetic, broken figureheads, their Cause looms as large as ever across...
...National Bank (world's biggest) sailed for Europe to take his place as U. S. representative on the Bank for International Settlements' committee to study Germany's credit needs and the possibility of turning short term credits into long terms. Great Britain's troubles are interwoven with Germany's. Chairman Wiggin will have to ponder them as well. Englishmen remembered last week that as long ago as January Chairman Wiggin urged a general reduction of War debts as a simple matter of "good business...
...Lust, Greed, Despair, Fear, Bravery are pursued throughout 36 hours in the life of a hotel and become Love, Disgrace, Hope, Birth, Death. But that would be doing precisely what Playwright Baum has, with consummate taste and brilliant use of understatement, avoided. Instead, she tells a series of delicately interwoven stories...
...central scene is the quiet Moscow drawing-room of old Professor Alexandrovitch. Here the story begins and ends; from this peaceful room it follows the threads of many interwoven lives to their differing destinies ? death at the Front, suicide at home, execution in a shambled cellar. Ehrberg was killed suddenly by a German shell, though Tanya, the Professor's granddaughter, loved him. Stolnikov came back from his battery with no arms and no legs, and lived as long as he could bear it. Astafiev had to bully his drunken killer before he could get the death he wished...
...more pleasing aspects in University tradition is the legend of Great Men at Harvard. Closely interwoven with this has been the chronic undergraduate complaint of the inability of close personal contact with the well-known Figures because of the unwieldy size of the College. One suggestion to remedy that shortcoming was the installation of the Friday afternoon Faculty teas at the Union, affording the average student a two-hour closeup of the leading professors and tutors connected with his own department. The scarcity of student-material at these gatherings hints more of exaggeration of the important of the wish than...