Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East Room of the White House, the President received delegates to a National Parole Conference, told them that, with 60-70,000 prisoners coming out of jails and reformatories every year, their handling by the different States is of vital concern to the country. Said he: "We know from experience that parole, when it is honestly and expertly managed, provides better protection for society than does any other method of release from prison...
...Excerpt: "I know this parole problem is difficult. It is as difficult as God Almighty's gymnastic paraphernalia provided for the development of human beings. . . . People who believe in crime by force should get their necks broken, or we should put them on the gridiron and burn them up. You bet your life! That puts the fear of God in their hearts. Then if you've got something left over worth salvaging, give them parole...
...French firing squad, for the second time within a month, destroyed a spy, this time a German gardener at Vendenheim near Strasbourg, who muttered: "I did not know it was so serious...
...annual "Bal Scramboree." And at the Grand Central Fifth Avenue Art Galleries the society put on its 37th annual exhibition, prefaced by a defensive program note. "These men are first-class craftsmen in a most difficult field," it said defiantly, "but the art critics and the plush carpeted galleries know them...
...episcopal gloves, presided at long and ceremonious services worked up from Fortescue.* A story became current in the Episcopal Church: that New York's Cardinal Hayes, upon learning that a choirboy had fainted during a Mass, had said, "We'd better be careful; the first thing you know they'll be copying that at St. Mary the Virgin." Latest innovation at St. Mary's: the use of a vimpa, a scarf of thin white silk worn around the neck, by which a bishop's mitre and crozier are held, to protect them from the human...