Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fritchey's diversionary attack concerned the Smaldone brothers. Eugene ("Checkers") and Clyde ("Flip Flop"), whose Colorado gambling empire netted them $1,000,000 yearly. Checkers was charged with income-tax evasion, but the first jury could not reach a verdict. While a second jury was being assembled, both brothers were caught trying to bribe prospective jurymen. Federal Judge Willis W. Ritter* sentenced them each to 60 years, then remarked indignantly from the bench, "I don't understand why the U.S. Department of Justice . . . should refuse to assist [in the case] . . . but they did." U.S. Attorney Charles S. Vigil...
...College room of a club member, since non-members among the undergraduates are not allowed within the club houses. If he passes close scrutiny at the punches, the candidate is then asked to a club dinner, sometimes held at the Signet or the Boston Harvard Club. Should he reach the final dinner the candidate can be quite assured of an invitation to join; but there are frequent exceptions. Election night (this year it was last night) the members gather at the club to discuss all the candidates who have survived the punching. Since there are no quotas, the clubs invite...
...York Times Rome Bureau Chief Arnaldo Cortesi, the press "is remarkable in that there is not a single Italian newspaper that has an anti-American bias," except Communist and Fascist papers. But the "sins of omission" are so great that an Italian who reads largely feature stories "would inevitably reach the conclusion that everyday life in the United States is centered on beauty contests, divorce and the scandals of cafe society...
...manhandled the English language, recalling Dreiser's powerful clumsiness, he never consciously wrote a shoddy line. On the 20th century stage, so far, only Shaw and Sean O'Casey outrank him. He failed in his ultimate goal, to go beyond the tree line of tragedy and reach the highest, noblest peaks. But few others in his day have tried to climb so high...
...novel is not an English form," and his selections help to prove it. None of the Great English Short Novels are great, and some of them are not even novels. But a number of them have other readable qualities that make this a pretty good book to have within reach on a night table...