Word: lone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cried. "Forty of the dead will never be identified. They were cut into bits!" Nevertheless, Prosecutor Katanyan asked no severer penalties than ten years' imprisonment. In the midst of the trial the wife of one of the engineers arose, addressed the crowd: "There should be only one lone criminal on trial here today. That is the wretched man whose desire for death was the first cause of the accident." The "lone criminal" was a cobbler named Vyesyolov. Drunk, he staggered in front of a train. While the crew of that train was trying to extricate his body a second...
...health. What if his wife does fret because he spends too much on agricultural experiments? This is his fun. He speaks the homely language his neighbors all under stand. This week they were immensely proud of him. So were all other Texans. He was about to bring the Lone Star State its first Speakership. That was more than 29 other States could yet boast about...
...first in the charge. Riding down the Chinese front line they cut a swath into which Japanese infantry poured pell mell, yelling. General Ma's right flank held at first. Chinese cavalry tried to encircle the Japanese right, but Japanese field guns and bombing planes stopped that. A lone Chinese anti-aircraft gun atop an armored car waggled and wobbled, frantically failed to hit even one of six Japanese planes. Nine Chinese field batteries blazed valiantly, but along a five-mile front superior Japanese armament turned the battle's tide. Chinese units broke, fled for their lives across...
Death in Texas. A lone Republican from the Lone Star State was Representative Harry McLeary Wurzbach. Immense personal popularity in Guadalupe County kept him in the House despite the opposition of the local Republican machine. Last week Congressman Wurzbach underwent an appendectomy, died suddenly. Thirty days after executive proclamation a special election will be held to fill his empty seat but Democrats were confident that they could replace him with one of their own. thereby adding another much-needed vote to their House strength. If they did, they would have a clean 218 majority...
...Vagabond quite frankly knows little about the Lone Star state. They raise cattle out there he has heard. Some cows they sell to the stockyards in Chicago, and some they sell to the movies. The Vagabond knows little about, the cow business, but he understands that heifer calf is better than no calf at all. He will, therefore, not talk about cows...