Word: punish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still such universal protest First Lord of the Admiralty William Clive Bridgeman shortly announced that the Admiralty had found a way to punish Rear Admiral Collard without actually court-martialing him. He has received orders, said the First Lord, which have the effect of placing him in provisional retirement upon half...
...rumored that Producers Miller and Woods with their complaint had furnished the Equity Council with affidavits, signed by observant hotel employes, physicians, theatre managers and fellow players, asserting that Actress Eagels' persistent ptomaine poisoning was caused by drink. The Actors' Equity Association asserted that it would punish Actress Eagels with becoming severity should the charges against her be proven true. Becoming severity in such a case might conceivably mean expulsion from the Equity Association, an action which would be sufficient to clip the wings of her stage career...
...theatrical ventures. Infuriated when she refuses to marry him, this suitor goes to the South Seas to kill his rival but remains to convince him that the lady has deceived both of them in her greed for gold. Accordingly they decoy her to the South Seas that they may punish her for so doing. Eventually, when her innocence becomes apparent, her first inamorata punches the young man-about-town, apologizes to the lady for his faint faith and prepares for a wedding...
...flouted" the Senate er "championed" Illinois, according to viewpoint. Illinois had elected him, the Senate must seat him, said he. The Senators had heard this argument before, from impartial Senator Borah, whose vote had been for seating Mr. Smith, out of respect to Illinois, then ousting Mr. Smith to punish political simony. After Mr. Smith, the Committee listened to a long-awaited explanation by Samuel Insull, potentate of gas, light and politics in Chicago. Mr. Insull, held in contempt of the Senate last year for refusing to tell who received $40,000 of the $237,925 he passed...
During the week, Governor Smith had occasion, to express himself on one more topic. Some Ku Klux Klansmen in Queens, N. Y., asked him to punish their municipal authorities for breaking up a Klan parade. Governor Smith answered that he could not act but that he hoped justice would be done. He also said: "I regard the purposes of your organization with abhorrence...