Word: martially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slovenly clutter sprawling over the prairie with a main street two miles long. In this motley oil town's brief career have been committed 40 murders, with not a single conviction. The killing of District Attorney John A. Holmes last month finally prodded Governor Dan Moody to declare martial law in Borger, to send in National Guardsmen of the 56th Cavalry Brigade under the command of Brigadier General Jacob F. Wolters...
...reconciled to his lot once more. All during the past week a feeling of restlessness has been growing more and more pronounced, and most disconcertingly the Vagabond would come to himself with a start in the midst of a lecture to find that inwardly he was listening to martial music...
Flight (Columbia). Daredevil marines at the airbase at Pensacola, Fla., and perfect synchronization of dialog and martial sounds make this a very exciting picture. The illusion of reality is strong when the theatre reverberates with roaring airplanes, staccato machine guns. Ralph Graves is a vacillating, blundering flyer who girds up his loins to win Lila Lee. Jack Holt, somewhat aged since his svelte days with the cinema mounted police, is a tough sergeant. Into the picture creeps propaganda about the U. S. |occupation of Nicaragua, especially when the Nicaraguan president is shown talking about U. S. good-Samaritanism. Best shot...
...Martial law was enforced. Six o'clock curfew was ordered, armored cars guarded the streets and airplanes watched from above. Censorship was rigid...
...Band opened their 37th season with a concert on Atlantic City's steel pier. For ten weeks they will tour the country, beginning at the dedication of Foshay Tower in Minneapolis. Bandmaster Sousa, 74, has swung his baton a half-century. Today he is keen-eyed, grey-haired, martial. Gone is the pointed black beard which used to punctuate his face on billboards. Before a concert he pulls on a new pair of white kid gloves, afterwards peels them off, autographs them for lady admirers. To aspiring young bandmasters he says: "Do not be obscure. ... It will ruin your...