Word: protects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representative Kight and colleagues represented themselves as desiring merely to "protect" Governor Johnston from Mrs. Hammonds. But the Johnston regime has been attended by something besides the anti-Hammonds talk. Governor Johnston has been accused of being a Rosicrucian.* He has been suspected of trafficking in the supernal with Mrs. Hammonds' uncle, one James R. Armstrong, who is said to study the Yogi philosophy. Oklahomans embellish their stories about Governor Johnston with sarcastic references to gnomes, nymphs, sylphs, salamanders, crystal-gazing, mystic numbers. Newsgatherers relate how Governor Johnston once said he would sign a certain bill at a certain...
...total student body. Close examination of the new bill showed that even if passed it would not increase the Jewish ratio by more than 1%. But in anti-Semitic Hungary one more percent in Jews can seem too many. Even so, why did not the Hungarian police protect harassed Jewish scholars, last week...
...able to find, in paint and rouge, a cunning disguise; powder has permitted the dirty to remain unwashed and undetected; wigs are for those who can grow no hair; magicians, incapable of miracles, can conjure up an appearance of supernatural; many a pretentious coping is built, as i to protect the high rooms of some splendid mansion, along an untenanted rood; the vase with one broken handle faces the world with the other...
...long experience with the Club, both as an undergraduate, and as a coach since his graduation. The surge of progress, the triumph of the new West over the lariat, is the motivating force of the presentation. Hard-riding, gun-toting cattlemen struggle in vain to protect their grazing lands from the invasion of foreign homesteaders. The action of the play occurs in Western Nebraska within a period of two weeks...
...life of Sheilah Miller is a conflict between the violent superficial distaste and the deep, deeply contradictory love which she feels for Felix Nawn. She marries him for martyrdom and her conflict continues; now it is between , her longing for Roger Dallenger and the old torturous instinct to protect the weaknesses of Felix. When Felix learns that the theft which he committed so that he could buy her a car is going to be exposed, he finds the tardy courage to commit suicide. Roger, about to propose to another girl, hears of his death and the story reaches its unnecessarily...