Word: lied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brought a rope. He wanted to hitch Jiminez' legs to a motor car and drag him through the streets. "No! No!" commanded Lieut. Villalon. "Let him lie in the streets like an animal!" The dying man stared up at them. They kicked and fouled his corpse after he went limp...
...Chicagoans invaded Washington seeking capital from the R. F. C. to add to Chicago's tunnel traffic a new and livelier commodity: steam. Chicago's freight tunnels, which most Chicagoans live and die without ever seeing, have little likeness to the passenger subways of other cities. They lie not just beneath the street but 40 feet below the surface. Driven through clay (bed rock is several hundred feet below the surface in Chicago's Loop) and walled with concrete a foot thick, they are but six feet wide and seven and a half feet high. There...
...were not for the Charles, Harvard would lie cramped between an ugly industrial city bristling with smoke-stacks and neon signs, and the cool green lawns of Brattle Street. If there were no river, men would grow vicious with no place to walk, and they would sit in smoke-filled rooms and dart like angry wasps at each other buzzing invective in ever-changing patterns. Under the blanket of heat that descends over the steeples and towers of Cambridge in the afternoon, the Charles sleeps while agile youths flit on the mirrored surface like water-spiders...
...economizing. At the mass meeting Dean Judd traced the economy move back to an order from Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly, who had in turn taken his orders from Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Chicago Tribune. In the matter of the deficit, Dean Judd gave to the Board the lie direct...
...Herald for the comics & features, beginning this week. While they were still running in the Post last week, the Herald announced the change in full-page advertisements. Such intense journalism might have cowed the Post in the decadent days of the McLean regime, but Publisher Meyer refused to lie down. In Washing ton his lawyers got an order restraining the Herald from printing the features. A court dissolved it. In Manhattan other Post lawyers tried to enjoin the Tribune Co. from selling to the Herald. On the crucial day, Washington newsreaders were treated to an extraordinary sight. The Gumps, Winkles...