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Word: matthewes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Judge Matthew T. Abruzzo, before whom they were arraigned, ordered them held for trial on March 6. All 17 had been held in lieu of bonds ranging from $10,000 to $50,000. After pleas had been entered for each, the balls were reduced to sums ranging from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 2/8/1940 | See Source »

When Congress decided, in 1851, that the Japanese should be persuaded to open their ports to U. S. trade, old Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry was picked to persuade them. He had spent, as it happened, two long years reading travelers' tales-which convinced him that the whole object of Japanese ceremony was to wring from the opposite party a sense of affectionate inferiority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Heartbreak | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

SHADOWS BEFORE-Dorothy Bowers-Crime Club ($2). The old reliable weedkiller roams again. Inspector Pardoe takes a complicated family apart in an intricate but well-turned English mystery revolving about Mr. Matthew Weir already once acquitted of arsenical behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death in January | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...Conn, for four years. Twice a day he had been shoved around in Grand Central Station, trampled like a grape in a vintage year; then, as he neared the train, given the old heave-o into the car by bawling subway guards. One muggy morning last week, Subway Guard Matthew Walsh spied Commuter Brooks on the crowd fringe, got behind him, shoved him mightily between the closing doors of a subway car. It was all suddenly too much for Commuter Brooks. Wheeling, he smacked Guard Walsh a lusty bust smack on the nose. Arrested, given a suspended sentence, he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Citizen Turns | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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