Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well aware is Boss Curry of the Hall's present ticklish situation, for which there is an interesting parallel in the last great Tammany scandal. In 1912, the year before Boss Murphy had Governor Sulzer impeached, a gambler named Herman Rosenthal was killed on the eve of his giving damaging evidence against venal policemen. Within four months Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, "Lefty Louis" Rosenberg, "Gyp the Blood" Horowitz, "Whitey" Lewis and "Dago Frank" Ciro-fici were sentenced to death for the murder. The reaction to this affair gave the State a Reform Governor (Charles S. Whitman), the city a Reform...
...have presented varied estimates both as to cost and extent of the building. One has placed the expense at $800,000, while another, estimating a cost of $1,300,000, proposed a Chapel of 2,000 capacity, extending from near Thayer Hall at the West end to a line parallel to Sever at the East. To carry out this plan, which includes a large tower, it would be necessary to remove not only the present Appleton Chapel, but also Old Fogg Art Museum...
...nontalking except for occasional voices explaining the action, Rango is not a travelog but has a proper scenario. An old Sumatran hunter and his son have gone into the interior to rid the country of tigers. The struggle of these two humans against the jungle is a parallel of the struggle of an orangutan and its child, and this parallel contributes the story. The orangutan is remarkable because it is so similar to man, and in this picture the relationship is derogatory to neither branch of the species: the hunter and the ape are allies against death-by-violence...
...publicly as a second choice, to reveal blandly that the Duke of Abercorn has turned Canada down, preferring to remain Governor of Northern Ireland-"that," sputtered the Liberal London Star last week, "is one of those things which are 'not done.' We cannot recall an indiscretion of parallel magnitude in connection with a command from royalty. ... In Court circles . . . this gross discourtesy . . . to the Crown . . . has not passed unnoticed...
...necessary execution without going outside its own organization. For this reason it is said that "The Ogpu is the State." But as Josef Stalin controls both the Ogpu and the Government it is more correct to say that he is the state, or that in Russia there are two parallel states...