Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theory, when 50 or 500 men and women rush through the night and hang a man or woman, they all?50 or 500?become murderers or accessories to murder. But in practice, in the South, lynchers have not been judged guilty of anything, because Southern governments habitually neglect to locate them. Last week, however, the most important news from Georgia was that one Gaines Lastinger had been sentenced to life imprisonment. He is the twelfth of a midsummer's night mob of lynchers to be convicted by Georgia...
...hatred of life, source of despair. But a mysterious blond man who has haunted him all these years, takes him for an automobile ride and explains that Arthur must love his fellowmen; that the future of humanity is divinity. . . . The tale is not unreadable. It does nothing if not rush. Over the last 75 years it puts on such a burst of speed that the landscape blurs entirely save for landmarks like Abraham Lincoln, Pittsburgh factories, modern "go-getters." But the book itself is more interesting than its contents. It is the third in a series called "The American Panorama...
...national capitol, one Robert Wilson, new page boy, rushed through the lobbies, encountered one Harry J. Brown, cried that a roll-call vote was on, Mr. Brown told Page Wilson to rush back and vote for him. Page Wilson, in the Chamber, did so, crying 'Aye' when the clerk staccatoed 'Browne.'* Talley clerks were startled by the treble. It was discovered that Harry Brown, page teaser, is correspondent of the Salt Lake City Tribune...
...hill. Having filled their columns with the same sort of thing before, they now found it too late to stop. The tabloids, moreover, had made of the Brownings "news" which newspapers could not, they felt, afford to omit. The Hearst Journal was willing enough, nay, eager, to rush its leading staff members to the trial, including saccharine Nell Brinkley who discovered a "lesson to mothers" for the front page. But the editor of the New York Herald Tribune may well have pondered before deciding the sensation was so unavoidable that he must assign to it Star Reporters Forrest Davis...
...going around with his own daughter. She ain't so good-looking either, but she knows what's what. I reckon her to be about 20, and just anxious to get into the public's eye. She's just silly, and I don't know why so many women rush to that there court to hear all that trash. But its 'spicy' and that's what the women want. I wouldn't advise anyone to hang around court rooms. It ain't so good...