Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Disputale at will upon the idiosyneracies of Bryan, or llylan, or some of our English Professors; upon the latest entry into the field of education, the college for crooks; upon the difficulty of not antagonizing one's advertisers; upon the murder wag--but then, stop. Turn the flow of searching discourse to the favoritism of the Phi Beta Kappa and the Lampoon; to the advisability of renovating Holyoke House and Apthorp; to a discursive dissertation on the brilliant conversation heard on Massachusetts avenue at yet it is time to stop. Exhort the track team and the crew...
...fact of the matter is that whenever a sufficient number of persons ally themselves for whatever purpose, there are always hundreds of other people ready to shriek fire, murder, and sudden death at the very mention of so dangerous an affiliation. As usual neither fire, murder, nor sudden death has descended. Instead of a great group dominating the country and its politics, we find that the bloc is merely a comparatively small number of representatives of agricultural districts trying to lighten the very numerous trials and tribulations of the farmer by voting as a unit on agricultural questions. The Farm...
...promptly revived. Formerly when two men fought and one was more or less damaged the other was fined a few dollars--if one died the other might have been hanged. But now killing a man will be no more dangerous than giving him a bloody nose,--will it be murder? Mondel, who spent his life working out laws of heredity, should turn in his grave, for all his labor must be done over again to fit a transmuted race. All told, our already complicated existence will become a hopeless nightmare of bewilderment, and we must resign ourselves to it. Surely...
With the crime statistics for 1921 completed, the Dyer Bill, aimed to end lynching, becomes a prominent issue. The figures reveal not only that this form of public murder has increased during the past year; they show that during the last thirty-six years well over four thousand men in this country have been deliberately taken from the shelter of justice and put to death at the hands of angry mobs. Such a record compares only too favorably with the list of actual murders...
...Missouri House of Representatives elected him to be a doorkeeper as its share of official tribute to the heroism of life on the highway. Both were made the central figures of dime novels, eagerly devoured by hundreds of thousands of boyish minds which thereupon became fired to commit murder and robbery and be handed down to posterity as the rivals of the "James boys...