Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only praise for the direct and fearless way he had handled the Walker examination. He behaved as if he had no thought of its political consequences. He had damned the Mayor out of his own mouth. A Walker removal now would thunder across the land until election day as proof positive that Governor Roosevelt is no "Tammany...
...RIPENING - Colette - Farrar & Rinehart. What Elinor Glyn used to be to thousands, Colette has increasingly become: purveyor to those who like mild aphrodisiacs in print.* But Colette, far above Authoress Glyn's tabloid class, wraps her erotic tablets in bathos-proof cellophane. Her uncanny feminine understanding, hearty physical sympathy for the internal workings of human nerves and glands, make her a writer who cannot avoid being labeled passionate but who never runs any danger of being cheap. Of the many Colette translations that have appeared in the U. S. in the last few years, The Ripening...
...Ezekiel a beard. Last week Nebraska Bible students protested. A beardless Ezekiel would be news in art. Michelangelo gave Ezekiel a round bush of a beard. Gustav Dore gave him a waist-long mare's tail beard.- But beard critics said that the shaving command was conclusive proof that Ezekiel was smooth-shaven at the time he was doing his best prophesying. Since Ezekiel kept his standing as the Lord's prophet for many years afterward, he must have obeyed the Lord's command. The case of the beard defenders was that, while the shaving order implied...
...proof he submitted a book (The Blockade of Phalsburg) which he said "Papa" Wendel had given him in 1901 in Dundee. On the flyleaf was written a record of the marriage and birth, signed by John G. Wendel. On the back flyleaf was a will bequeathing all John Wendel's property to his son, Thomas Patrick Mor ris Wendel. Also Morris submitted a pair of huge shoes with inch-thick gum soles which he said "Papa" Wendel once wore...
...cannot take affirmative action against a local union officer but .... The Federation is pledged to go the limit in purging itself of racketeering. . . . Our policy is to protect members from racketeering in any form, even to the extent of suspending an international union which has failed to act on proof of wrongdoing...