Word: papered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writer has no knowledge of what the sentiments of others may be, but he is now requesting that you discontinue the paper with the approaching expiration of his subscription...
...weeks through Gastonia, dominated by large cotton mill interests, had swirled passion and prejudice against the strikers. So bitter was this feeling that defense counsel asked Judge Barnhill to move the case elsewhere. As a sample of local sentiment, they offered an editorial in a Gastonia paper: "The blood of our beloved chief cries out to high heaven for vengeance. The shooting was part of a deep-laid scheme of Russian Anarchists. Gaston County has already been too lenient with these despicable curs and snakes from the dives of Passaic, Hoboken and New York...
...grizzled old man of 71 walked slowly down the steps of Charlestown (Mass.) State Prison, looking neither right nor left at staring crowds. He wore a grey baggy suit, a flannel shirt, a soft cap, carried a small paper package. His face was set in hard, unhappy lines. He spoke to no one, as he climbed into a Ford sedan, cringed down in its back seat. The car carried him out of the prison yard for the first time in 43 years...
...anesthetic wore off and M. Poincarè regained consciousness he appeared to think first and only of work. Certain reports had had to be left unfinished when illness obliged him to resign the Prime Ministry. As soon as ever he could Le Lion called for documents, ink and paper, set about completing the reports in his clear, precise, almost microscopic hand. So many huge baskets and bouquets arrived that when the invalid's room was full Mme. Poincare ordered the surplus sent, not without vanity, to deck the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
...reveal how he had staged the whole diplomatic orgy without cost to the Spanish Treasury. At the time of the League session, he reminded, the Spanish Post Office had issued a special, limited series of "commemorative stamps. Up to last week, he declared, the sale of these bits of paper to philatelists abroad has already brought in more money than it cost to champagne and caviar thoroughly the statesmen of the League...