Word: openness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...squeaky, dodged and swerved along the crowded track. Derby hats, caps, fedoras and sombreros rolled by. Slick city men talked loudly. Rough desert men looked grim. The Bad Lands that the Indians call Malapai woke up as they had not awakened since Jim Butler's mule kicked open the silver vein that made Tonopah in 1900. They rattled and rumbled for 40 miles, to Weepah, a treeless place on the "bench" (foothill plateau) of the Silver Peak range...
Thoroughgoing, he and his men sounded the walls and floors for secret hiding places, uttered awful threats. Mme. Belmont-Gobert only sat passive in her sitting room. At last the captain wrenched open the right-hand door of her large black armoire (wardrobe), snorted to see it divided into small shelves incapable of holding a rabbit, banged the right-hand door shut without opening the left-hand door, strode away...
...lathered himself. At that moment a soldier's gun butt crashed against the door. . . . Tough, the door held. The soldiers demanded of Señor Rioseco that he come out and submit to arrest. They shouted that he had embezzled 3,000,000 pesos ($360,000). "Open the door in the name of the law! . . ." Within the bathroom the pistol spat lead. Six shots ripped through the door, made the soldiers quiet, wounded one. Then with his last shot, Señor Rioseco committed suicide, slumped down into the soapy water...
...lectures are open to the public without charge. The sections reserved for ticket holders will be thrown open to all at five minutes of eight...
...premiere of "Gentlemen, the Queen" will be on April 6, Graduates' Night, and will not be open to the public. The first public performance will be on Thursday, April 7, at 8.15 o'clock in the Hasty Pudding Clubhouse. It will play there until the following Thursday and then go on tour, giving performances at the Academy of Music in Northampton on April 16, the Penn Athletic Club in Philadelphia on April 21, and the Mecca Temple in New York on April...