Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hylan hinted that the Marlow case would join the Rothstein case as another unsolved murder with a political tinge. Before the week was out, Commissioner Whalen had eight persons under arrest, six as material witnesses, two as oldtime criminals, caught in a "fortified" apartment, to whom the actual murder might be charged...
Luther (Cob-Film). The German producers who made this compressed biography of Protestant Martin Luther had to be careful. They could not make him out an inspired and righteous prophet or Roman Catholics might stay away. They could not, on the other hand, suggest as some theologians have, that Luther was an oversensitive but not overintelligent monk, stimulated by the dirty church politics of his time into a rebellion which became increasingly fanatic as it became increasingly personal. Their real job was to consider that Luther had no reputation one way or the other. If they had shown...
...could produce an immediate effect on American opinion if we made clear, as we might have done long ago, that we have abandoned our naval bases in the Caribbean. In policy we have long recognized that the United States has a paramount interest there and it is time we demonstrated clearly that our strategy recognizes that fact...
...Actress O'Neill's dismay, Chief Constable Wensley had announced his resignation just before her loss was discovered. The coincidence suggested a new plot to detective-story authors, but to her it just seemed jolly bad luck. Able though his assistants and successors might be, it would have been a lark to have one's jewels found, one's would-be poisoner apprehended, by the greatest Sherlock of them...
Those who saw Baron Passfield glance occasionally at the Peeresses' Gallery, wondered what he was thinking, how much of his nervousness might derive from a gracious lady of 71 who sat there calmly watching the ceremony. She, Mrs. Beatrice Webb, last week proved again that she is the same independent, energetic person who, even before her marriage in 1892 to Sidney Webb, was an authority on economics. She has collaborated with him since on more than 30 books and tracts. In 1923 after 30 years as active members of the Labor and Socialist movement they framed their first indictment...