Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recalls to my mind a little incident of my girlhood, 50 years ago. A miss of 12 or 13, I was having breakfast in the house of a friend of my own age. During the course of the meal, the other girl sitting at her father's right hand, and probably pondering a Sunday-School lesson, asked quietly: "Papa, what is a concubine...
...Governor had wept for a few minutes and then, in dim fashion, had begun to gather his possessions. Now he declared to reporters as he boarded a train for Indianapolis: "This is the happiest day of my life. ... I don't know what I'll do yet. . . . Right now I just want to be happy...
...them for her on his scissors-grinder as expertly as he could. Mrs. Levine eyed the result, her lips in a purse of doubt. Suddenly she seized Mr. Berardi by his baggy trousers. Snip! Before you could say "Spaghetti" she had sliced a gaping moon out of one trouser, right at the knee. Ventilated, humilitated Mr. Berardi rushed to court...
...sweetheart, Feathers (Evelyn Brent), and his regenerate drunkard protege, Rolls Royce (Clive Brook), had been the means of double-crossing him into the cuffs of the police? One hour before "burning" time, he breaks jail to settle this doubt, discovers that, although his thuglings have fallen in love right under his bristly chin, they have been loyal to him. Apparently all that really matters to Big Bull is his faith in his fellowmen, for he ambles back to the death cell, at peace with the world...
...told he had no right to jail them. He retorted: "But they're in jail, aren't they? You've got to act quick when you're facing a crisis...