Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthday. Lawyer Clarence Darrow, 80; in Chicago. His standard birthday speech: "Nobody has ever been able to give me proof that there is another life and I don't know that I would want it if there were...
...status of a poker dealer in his place brought him into conflict with Poker Flat's better elements, Rev. Samuel Wood (Van Heflin) and Schoolteacher Helen (Jean Muir). John Oakhurst tried for Helen's sake to change his principles, but the effort was not proof against an invitation to a shooting match. His successful duel with a prospector prompted the Vigilantes to a civic purge. Head of a little group of outcast reprobates, marooned in a Sierra blizzard with provisions dwindling, John Oakhurst cut the cards, turned up the deuce of clubs, cashed in his chips with...
...years ago, government officials, realizing the old boy to be something of a menace to paleface citizens-he carried a long knife and was somewhat irascible-enclosed a part of his land with a high, man-proof, woven-wire fence and put him inside. A comfortable house was built for him and an Indian man and wife were employed to care for him. At first, he resented his caretakers, running them off the place with the knife and he absolutely refused to sleep in the house. When he became slightly more reconciled, an elaborate teepee was built...
...more because Rightists were being tempted by every means of expert Leftist propaganda to drop their rifles, come on over and share Spain. Leaflets dropped from airplanes and shot over no-man's land in Leftist skyrockets read: "Brothers, among us everyone owns everything in Spain collectively! The proof is that every man behind our lines gets all the land he can till free. Is that true behind your lines? We promise 'Bread, Land and Liberty for All!' and we keep our promises...
...rule that dogs can't climb trees, photographs which filtered into metropolitan circulation last week furnished proof of a startling exception. At Clyde, Kans.- 200 mi. down the Republican River from the scene of the historic Indian ambush currently depicted in The Plainsman- were run late in February the sixth annual Republican Valley Coon Hound Field Trials. Goal of the free-for-all race was a tree in which a live raccoon was tied high and safe. First to reach the tree was a 4-year-old redbone coon hound named Rudd. The race was over but Rudd...