Word: puts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Myopic, thought the defense, was the testimony of Mrs. Clarence Miller. Smiling at the lawyers' horrified faces, she blithely admitted Communist beliefs. Communist teachings. The defense lawyers hurriedly changed plans, did not put her prisoner-husband on the stand. The prosecution was jubilant. Mrs, Miller had given the show away...
...rich barrister's daughter who would rather be Laborite than socialite. Last week Miss Lawrence heard rumblings of discord. People were beginning to say that the Prime Minister ought to be home solving the unemployment problem, not gadding about reducing navies. At such times the party executive must put up a front, loose an achievement or two as a sop to criticism. Observers divined the strategy of Arabella Susan Lawrence in the following Laborite moves last week...
Cornell could not put anything in Wittmer's way when he snaked a kick-off past them for a touchdown, but after that excitement Princeton rooters sat drearily while red jerseys went through centre, guard, tackle for safe gains. Cornell 13, Princeton...
...Olympic in Southampton, England, last week, carpenters went to work on a bunk. They tore out the end of it, made it much longer. They put a row of thick struts under it to make it bear twice a normal sleeper's weight. The White Star Line took these precautions, not because it had accepted an elephant as a first class passenger, but because a prospective passenger named Primo Carnera is proportioned like the giants of myth. Passenger Camera, an Italian pugilist, planned his trip to the U. S. as a business venture. He felt that he ought...
...basis for the greeting card industry. He had, he said, gotten his start in Washington by means of a card from his college chum. President Thomas Woodrow Wilson, which still helped him approach Democratic Senators. Lobbyist Burgess had requested the dismissal of Mr. Koch because, he explained, he had put the pottery industry in "the wrong light" before the Senate Finance Committee. Mr. Koch was not dismissed, though potters carried their complaints even to President Hoover. Sugar. Frank were the avowals of Harry A. Austin, secretary-treasurer of the U. S. Beet Sugar Association, of his efforts to obtain...