Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particular case of aggravated assault and battery (to which "with intent to kill" should be added), neither the victim nor his tormentors fared so well. The victim has been dead and buried quite a few years but the assaulters, to the best of my knowledge, are still serving time in the Western Penitentiary...
...Howe's were certainly necessary to make bedfellows of the founders of ALL, and no commonplace, ready-made bed would hold them. The nature of ALL, as its president Jouett Shouse announced it, was to parallel the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment: to take a definite stand on particular issues, to take no direct part in elections, to organize and represent before Congress the interests of homeowners, farmers, labor, savings depositors, bondholders and stockholders...
...Venice carried complaints which reached even the ear of Pope Pius XI at his summer retreat in the Alban Hills. Next day the Papal news-organ, L'Osservatore Romano, flayed the goings-on in Venice, deplored the failure of Little Women to prove as popular as Extase, thundered particular displeasure at the loud booing in Venice of a dull French film devoted to exhibiting the beauties of cathedrals...
...Adams observes that children lie glibly, ask many a question for no particular reason, often fail to distinguish between cause and effect. ("The fire engine stopped because the wheel is not going around.") Declares Dr. Adams: "The average child of 18 months cries 'No,' often and emphatically without having the slightest intellectual conception of its meaning. It screams 'No' decisively when a toy or a sweet is taken from it, and . . . when it is told to do something it considers disagreeable or unnecessary...
Just how many Austrians wanted their "independence" guaranteed by other nations, the Italians in particular, will never be known, but it is safe to assume that of the 500,000 people who filed past the Dollfuss bier, 300,000 were there to make certain he was dead?not, as you infer, to do him honor...