Word: move
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Negro boy saw it. He had been playing on the bridge. He looked down, and there was the hand. It did not move. The Negro did. A sheriff who discerned something more than fantasy behind his terrified eyes and whirling words, followed the boy back to the river and found, under the hand, the body of a onetime bartender for Mr. Birger, wrapped in a horse-blanket and riddled with bullets. The sheriff was bothered, because at dawn that same morning he had been called out to have a look at one William B. McQuay who lay in his automobile...
...summer arranged to buy its winter supply of coal from a mine about 20 miles from Peking. The railroad was under the control of Wu Pei-fu, the then dominant war lord. His underlings demanded a 'squeeze' of $2 per ton for the use of cars to move the coal...
...enchanting evangelist did not hire a substitute to impersonate her at beautiful Carmel-by-the-Sea and that consequently anyone who so accused her was attempting to blacken her reputation the defense now turns a complete somersault and tacitly admitting the possibility, even the probability, of such a move, argues that the action does not constitute a crime. Socrates himself could not have more cleverly retreated from a cloud of threatening evidence; even Gratian would have been forced to admire the constitutional genius who prepared the briefs for the case. No matter what the eventual outcome is (and with this...
...school authorities decreed that girls from the sixth grade up must wear skirts long enough to cover their knees, walking or sitting. Hazel O'Brien, 16, spunky, would have none of the rule. Relatives backed her and a legal action hung upon the school board's next move. Said one of Hazel O'Brien's less haughty schoolmates: "We'll look like the girls of the horse-and-buggy days. The boys will be drifting to other towns for dates...
This news, of such forensic value, was that the Irving Bank & Trust Co. and the American Exchange-Pacific National Bank, both of Manhattan, were merging. Directors approved the move; stockholders will soon vote. Together they have two main offices and 23 branches. Their combined capital is $735,000,000, third in rank after the National City Bank (capital $1,215,033,702 last December) and the Chase National Bank ($1,025,943,818 last February...