Word: outlawing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first directed their use. That these will make war a more horrible enterprise than ever before seems obvious, but there are those like Mr. Wells, who will welcome their advent in the hope that their very effectiveness and potency will do more than any possible disarmament conference to outlaw...
News. The Patterson-McCormick Daily News delivered such headlines as "PEACHES'S BRIDAL SECRETS," "HUNT PEACHES'S 50 SHEIKS," "OUTLAW GOLDDIGGERS! PLEADS BROWNING," "BLED OF CASH-DADDY." (The News, to be "different," sided with Mr. Browning.) All the tabloids, of course, published judiciously selected slices of the testimony...
...Immortal Thief originates in the New Testament account of the crucifixion. In Walter Hampden, innately a scholar and a gentleman, it is difficult to see a tigerish outlaw of harsh Jerusalem. Yet there he is, leaping to good, plunging into evil, denying the gods, always thinking of them, a strange duality of ruthless passion and grand sacrifice. He breaks a fellow thief's legs, cuts off the hand of another, supposedly traitorous. To atone for his cruelty, he sacrifices himself to save a girl, unloved, who adores him. Salvation comes at the end in a fiercely realistic crucifixion tableau...
Three million New York Straphangers hung as usual last week. The subway strike of some 700 "keymen" (motormen and switchmen) had practically failed. Herman A. Metz, one of the three public representatives of the Interborough directorate, refused to recognize the strikers' "outlaw union." The "union" leaders, Herman A. Metz, Harry Bark, Joseph Phelan refused to return on any other basis. Meantime, the I. R. T., bearing in mind the famed Danbury Hatters case, brought suit against the strikers for 239,000 damages ("violation of contract.") Said noted jurist Samuel Untermeyer, "This is a silly and transparent gesture." Manhattan autocrats...
...great outcry arose from twenty platforms full of women in Hyde Park, London, last week, and a still greater whine of approbation surged from the lips of 100,000 ladies there assembled. The females, mostly shod in flat heeled shoes, had marched to outlaw war and many a one of them had tramped, Chauceresquely, across the length of England to contribute personally her mite to the splendid idea. There were miners' wives, actresses, professional women, society dames...