Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When I drive on a country road in this county farmers or their wives call to me: 'Come in and get some cider, a basket of grapes, some sweet corn for dinner.' The women of the town and county keep the print shop fragrant with flowers. I have a place in this community...
...McCormick described the Minnesota law as "tyrannical, despotic, un-American and offensive," declared that it would place the press in a position where it could be silenced by any corrupt administration. Hitherto the courts have had power to punish libelous publications, but this law gives them power to prevent publications entirely. What is more it enables a whole file of a paper, extending over a period of three months or more, to be placed in evidence, and permits stopping publication entirely unless the publisher can prove every statement that has appeared in all that time?a thing practically impossible...
...Manhattan, Colyumist Elsie McCormick of the World told last week of a practicable use for live eels, also for umbrella covers. Procedure: place the eel in the umbrella cover, attach the umbrella cover to the rear of a Mephistopheles costume, go to a fancy dress ball...
...winter in Creative Art, "I do not know how to do it unless I speak of the life of these comrades of mine." His subjects are in the panorama of Mexican modes and mores. His frescoes are devoted to the city and country laborer, miner, country school teacher, market place, burial, festival, harvest, battle. Satirically bent, he has depicted a dinner table group including John Davison Rockefeller, John Pierpont Morgan and Henry Ford. Ticker tape winds among the wine glasses. There is a radio loud speaker, a steel safe door, a lamp shaped like the Statue of Liberty, an artificial...
What the Jury Did. The jury went into retirement for 42 minutes. John Cowan, one of the jurors, was later interviewed by a reporter. He gave the following account of what took place: the first ballot was 8-4 for conviction, the second 9-3, the third 10-2. At that point a court attendant warned the jurors it was after 5 p. m. A fourth ballot was quickly taken: 12-0. "Guilty." Colloquy between the reporter and the juror...