Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gambling with the paraphernalia of roulette and baccarat was allowed to be resumed in Italy, last week, but at only one resort, San Remo, which is only 20 miles east of Monte Carlo on the Riviera. When Senator Corrado Ricci interpellated Signor Mussolini, last week, as to why San Remo alone was favored, the Dictator rapped...
...Ousted from Chicago, escorted out of Los Angeles, received tentatively by Miami, Fla., Capone was last week driven out of Miami by editorials in the Miami Beach Sun, whose editor, Kent Watson, was lately beaten by gangsters following the Sun's campaign against an allegedly crooked gambling resort...
...Assign that function to a board of specialists-psychiatrists, crime students-whose salaries would be commensurate with the responsibility reposed in them. Governor Smith proposed $25,000 per annum each, the figure to which New York has just raised its chief executive's pay. Psychiatry has become a resort of criminal defense. Sometimes it is invoked falsely, in desperation; sometimes honestly, with justice. Judges invariably require expert advice when scientific evidence is introduced. The Smith plan would require judges to conduct trials, juries to find guilt or innocence, experts to make punishments fit crimes. Designed to promote accuracy...
...other it would have the farmer and the manufacturer. Assuming that Europe would have more money if it sold us larger amounts of merchandise, it is not certain it would consume more food, or, if it did, that its purchases would be made in this country. Undoubtedly it would resort to the cheapest market, which is by no means ours. The largest and best and most profitable market for the farmer in the world is our own domestic market. Any great increase in manufactured imports means the closing of our own plants. Nothing could be worse for agriculture...
Very Confidential is designed to show that if Madge Bellamy were a shopgirl she could go to a fashion resort and make another girl's fiance fall in love with her. The picture would have been more creditable had Actress Bellamy been instructed to control her belligerent coyness...