Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they must release Mme. Borodin, her couriers, her baggage, and the S. S. Pamiat Lenina. But Mme. Borodin was not released. To rescue her, Russia must send much gold, or many men, offer some great concession, or concoct some really potent threat. "Mrs. Grosberg," Chinese thought, is likely to prove the most valuable hostage of the whole Chinese civil...
Eulenburg the Proof. Is Biographer Ludwig a shrewd Clarence Darrow, speciously pleading that the culprit's inferiority complex drove him to War Lordhood? To prove beyond a doubt the tragic duality of the Kaiser's personality, Herr Ludwig presents as secondary only to the Emperor in interpretive importance, his bosom friend for 30 years, Count (later Prince) Philip zu Eulenburg-Hertfield...
...Colonel Miller does not take the attitude of being the 'goat,'" said Mr. Sapiro. "As you know, Colonel Miller did not take the stand or call any witnesses in his defense. This course was decided upon in view of our conviction that the Government haa failed to prove a conspiracy as such, although it proved a great many facts, such as the possession of bonds, not denied by Colonel Miller, but from which inferences good or bad could be drawn...
...inhales, but in any event other women's husbands have the oddest habit of walking in at all hours of the day and night. Being a lady, Nina tells them to go and go they do--only to return with orchids and dinner invitations. They prove delightful, if inconstant, playboys and when they depart Nina decides that life is a funny proposition but not quite so funny when one has to be both a lady and alone...
...producing the play. For him it is in the nature of a bitter gesture. He said, in as many words, that, since the public was so insistent upon cleanliness and purity in the theatre, he would give them a chance to support a clean, wholesome, pure, enjoyable play, or prove that his "girl shows" are the right idea. As a matter of fact, his play is all he says it is, though little more...