Word: miller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unruffled, scrupulously ruling. But the approving fingers soon wavered. When Judge Barnhill, following a North Carolina statute of 1777, ordered a witness's disbelief in a punishing God admitted in evidence to lessen the force of her testimony, liberals cried out in dismay. The witness was Mrs. Clarence Miller, young wife of one of the defendants. Said Judge Barnhill: "If I believed that life ends with death and that there is no punishment after death, I would be less apt to tell the truth." Chief Justice William Howard Taft, highest-ranking U. S. jurist, is a Unitarian. Unitarians...
Myopic, thought the defense, was the testimony of Mrs. Clarence Miller. Smiling at the lawyers' horrified faces, she blithely admitted Communist beliefs. Communist teachings. The defense lawyers hurriedly changed plans, did not put her prisoner-husband on the stand. The prosecution was jubilant. Mrs, Miller had given the show away...
...clock. The play, by Fannie Heaslip Lea, describes the love affairs of two men, two women and a gigolo. Mary Young, expert in the impersonation of giddy dowagers (Dancing Mothers, Gypsy) is beset by the gigolo (Alberto Carrillo), and only escapes when her girlhood suitor (Hugh Miller), upon whom her family had frowned, returns after two decades of desperate forgetfulness in South America. In their hot youth he had gotten the matron with daughter, a hard-boiled maiden who throughout the play symbolizes the modern girl. These conventionalities are accented by pleasant dialog which attains such epigrammatic heights as: "Children...
...Truck" Miller, "Honeyboy" Finnegan, "Newsboy" Brown, "Gloomy Gil" Dobie, Fielding "Hurry-Up Yost, "Cannonball" Crabtree (who will be seen in action when Florida comes to Cambridge a week hence), Paolino Uczudum, the Bounding Basque of the Pyrenees, are some of the more common handles that come to mind. Time Out is just waiting, though, for the day when Harvard will have a star who can be called "Rain Or" Shine...
...since words could not be heard, Cubs tried to make Malone feel better, but his nerve was gone. He took a long breath, got rid of Mickey Cochrane on a grounder; burly Simmons doubled. Joe McCarthy signalled to pass Foxx. While the crowd, inimical to strategy, was hooting this. Miller's two bagger brought the run that won the championship and $6,000 prize money for each first-string Athletic; to each Cub-loser's dole-went...