Word: opens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whalen was much less successful in meeting the challenge of crime to which he owes his office. The murderer of Gambler Rothstein remained at large; for every speakeasy closed, many remained prosperously open; the city's purlieus were by no means disinfected. Mr. Whalen made threats against 996 "nests of crime" listed in a recent police report. At the Chelsea Methodist Church he declared his opinion that "known criminals have no Constitutional rights." He also blurted out that any who questioned his methods "are not good citizens...
English jurists were still arguing hotly, last week, whether the Lord High Chancellor did not break the common law of England when he had Henry VII's Chapel roped off for his wedding. The law is explicit. The ceremony must take place with open doors because, at any moment someone may need to rush in and state why the marriage should not take place...
When each of some 665,000-members of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union, General Federation of Women's Clubs, National Council of Jewish Women and Metropolitan Life Insurance policyholders-ripped open the envelopes of her mail last week, there slipped into her hand from one envelope a pamphlet which bore on its face the horrendous word cancer. "What Every Woman Should Do About Cancer" was the pamphlet's title. It was part of the American Society for the Control of Cancer's latest effort to reach 8,000,000 U. S. women...
...attention. With their square bows and inverted-V bottoms,* the Sea Sleds keep their noses well out of the water, keep their passen gers free from flying spray. Model 18 is equipped with a demountable sliding cabin - a one-man top arrangement designed to combine the advantages of an open and of a cabin boat. It is equipped with toilet and kitchenette and, says its catalog description...
...Rotary is not an open declaration of war on religion, it is one of neutrality. It adopts a policy of naturalism and knows nothing of faith and religion...