Word: occur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easy after the shooting is over to outline what police, bank clerks, and on-lookers should do to forestall the escape of gunmen, and to suggest that telephoning the police in the event of a hold-up should be the first thought to occur to the most inexperienced in the ways of gangsters. Likewise, from all sides comes advice concerning teletype, vault alarms, swiftness of justice, and consolidated detective agencies, yet few take seriously any suggestion to enforce strictly the limiting of machine gun sales to authorized persons...
...letter mentions John Charles Thomas, who is under my management and refers with caustic criticism to his recent disappointment of an audience, I feel called upon to enlighten the writer of that letter as to the circumstances under which such disappointments occur...
...science refine the fire of such combat to an intensity calculated to reduce the whole to a whiff of smoke and ashes. The largest nation left extant would be able to organize the world under one control, if it has been able to remain neutral. That this did not occur in the last "war" is due only to the fact that its battles, its slaughter, its campaigns were but puling chitchat in the cradle...
This is rendered more likely by the fact that there is really nothing the powers can do to prevent Nazilsm from establishing itself as the actual government in Austria, providing no attempt is made to achieve the Anschluss by actually joining the two countries together. If this should occur and a Nazi government be set up either by the Germans independently or with the aid of Dolifuss--nothing short of military occupation of the country could prevent the Austrian government from cooperating with Berlin in such a way as to make the Anschluss effective in all but name. Thus...
...cleverness of the criminal in accomplishing his dirty work, and upon the narrow escapes which he has in evading justice. Unfortunately, in "Ten-Minute Alibi" the criminal is not very clever, but this is made up for by the number of close calls which he has; they occur, in fact, about every two minutes during the last two acts, and after the first dozen or so one becomes distinctly indifferent about his fate. As a mystery thriller, "Ten-Minute Alibi" does not have much to recommend it; as a melodrama it is of the young-girl-seduced-by-the-handsome...