Word: pressed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cases of good liquor. In mid-Manhattan a detachment entered a businesslike office where directors of a colossal liquor syndicate, said to have a monopoly of the metropolitan supply, were known to meet, plan operations, declare fabulous dividends. Records the raiders found, but no directors. "BIGGEST DRY RAID" blared press headlines the next morning. A picked detachment of raiders invaded the field headquarters of the syndicate, an isolated 20-room mansion high on a New Jersey headland, onetime country house of the late Oscar Hammerstein, black cigar & light opera tycoon. Oriental rugs, costly new furniture adorned the living rooms. Beneath...
Martyrdom was missing. Defendant Fred Erwin Beal, Gastonia strike organizer, principal defendant, supposed Communist, when it came his turn to speak, weaseled. Loudly had the Communist press hailed him as a hero. Faced with a possible sentence, Defendant Beal, 33, pale, broad, fleshy, in a low voice denied his Communist principles, did not advocate revolution, had no objection to policemen, however violent in line of duty. The defense counsel wanted no martyrs...
...dove of peace hovers around the vine-clad door and the kindly light of the autumn sun kisses the curly hair of happy children." Lawyer Carpenter called the mill-owners, his employers, "a holy gang, a God-serving gang." He recited a poem to Mother, shook hands with Communist Press Agent Liston Oak, sat down...
Harvard is afflicted beyond most colleges with this aggravation of the trivial. With few exceptions, the press selects anti-Harkness Lampoons, weird Socialist pronouncements, and the peccadilloes of one club, as its Harvard news. The domestic affairs of Harvard are paraded; the legitimate news is buried under the indifference of the press...
...afternoon's pleasure. It is assumed that the long-delayed adoption of numbers for players at Harvard was for the benefit of the onlooker, but what good are the figures when no spy-glass can discern them unless the play is within a few yards? The Associated Press is not to be blamed for discovering one Barry in the Harvard squad: the wonder is that the newsmen spotted the players as well as they...