Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Phil La Follette's executive secretary and financial adviser. One night last March, Duncan, who had been drinking, careened through the outskirts of Milwaukee in his automobile, smashed into three other cars successively, killed a man, never stopped until overtaken by police. Because of Duncan's respected past, a lenient judge, who had found him guilty of first-degree manslaughter (calling for five to ten years in prison), let him off with a short term in Milwaukee's house of correction. Just before leaving office Governor La Follette, acting without the State pardon board, freed his friend...
...Ficthorne Reisner of Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle ("I get in the papers all I can, but it is not personal publicity I seek-I want my Christ played up"); Mizra Ahmad Sohrab, direct descendant of Mohammed and leader of U. S. Bahaism ("There is no saint without a past; there is no sinner without a future"); Editor Josette Lacoste of the U. S. French-language weekly, Amérique ("Only with a baby in arms can one walk safely in Paris"). No matter how many haughty ladies might refuse to curtsy to his wife, the Duke could rest assured...
Ross at 121 pounds seems to have shown in the past that he can wrestle better as a member of a team than he can when he is trying to win for himself. This is supported by the fact that he only lost one decision and a fall during the entire season, while he was unable to forge on past the first round of the Easterns. Then again Froshay may have bolstered himself sufficiently in the last match to clinch the duel. At all events the match promises to be close...
...many years the College has carried on numerous activities with the Peabody institution. Several of the Harvard Dramatic Club's productions of the past few seasons have been staged at the Settlement House. In contributing to the House's laboratory equipment the University's professors have shown themselves especially generous...
...hearing of this kind. I do not wish to be put in the position of discussing controversial political views affecting the Court. My outlook on various problems has been fully expressed over a period of years. I feel that it is bad taste and inconsistent to supplement my past record with a statement on present day problems