Word: outs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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U. S. Senator Hiram Johnson: "The principle of killing people to put them out of their misery does not appeal to me."
Later in the week at a meeting of the National Labor Club, Scot MacDonald told how he had been "struck by President Hoover's quiet forcefulness. . . . His powerful way of furthering an argument made me almost smile in his face and exclaim to him out of the happiness of...
Women wept hysterically. A farmer-juryman paled, called for brandy, collapsed. Locked up at last in the jury room the farmers soon sent out a message, stated that they wished to find a verdict against the prisoner but wanted assurance from the Judge that Richard Corbett would be pardoned.
U. S. Naturalist William Beebe: "That man was absolutely justified in what he did. There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever. I'd have done the same thing myself without any thought of the laws involved. . . . Of course I don't hold human life in as much esteem as...
"I had a similar case once myself. Two Indians with me in British Guiana when we were about five days by canoe from anywhere, had their legs crushed and most certainly would have died within two days. I put them out of their suffering with morphine and was thanked by...