Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were 13 counts against Lawyer Barriobero, ranging from accusations that he took part in the assault on the Montana Barracks in Madrid and that he helped sack a Madrid convent, to the fact that he was a militant 33rd-degree Mason. Summed up Captain Jose Rodriguez, the military prosecutor...
...Falstaff o'erstrides the play. Unknightliest of knights, a "tun of a man," a "huge bombard of sack"-guzzler, lecher, liar, braggart, coward, thief-he is like some centrifugal force overcoming gravitation. Far from being a villain, he is the most entertaining and lovable of knaves. Caught out in his outrageous boasts, his fantastic lies, shamming dead (to avoid being killed) on the battlefield, he never loses his unshatterable aplomb, never lags in invention or languishes in wit. At bottom Falstaff may well be a superb showman, not expecting to be believed, only counting on being relished; not expecting...
...Governor seemed hazy on details, but it appeared that his pyramided sales tax* would have to be paid at least three times on a sack of flour, by manufacturer, jobber, retailer. Its other complexities he suggested when he proposed some exemptions : salaries, wages, professional fees (where it would be an additional income tax), interstate transactions, first sale by producer of agricultural and livestock products, street car fares up to 10?, street sales of newspapers, charitable and church transactions...
Since Viennese Nazis sacked the archiepiscopal palace of Theodor Cardinal Innitzer last month, the Nazi Government of the Ostmark has systematically closed down Roman Catholic schools and seminaries, bundled monks out of their monasteries, arrested and harried the lower clergy. After the sack, Cardinal Innitzer (whom the U. S. Catholic hierarchy at its recent annual meeting praised as a "valiant spokesman") issued a statement denying that he had ever attacked Adolf Hitler, or that he had been silent at the accession of Sudetenland, and declaring: "I expressed my thanks to the Führer and ordered thanksgiving services...
...aeronauts, scoop-up-&-drop mail service attracted the fancy of the 75th Congress, which directed the Post Office to call for last week's bids. Most popular scooping arrangement is a grapple hook dangling from the plane by a rope to catch another rope (with the mail sack attached) suspended between two posts. To deliver sacks without bursting them, experimenters have used nets, parachutes, hinged rods on the bottom of the sack which absorb the shock. The Post Office left the scooping method to the airlines, subject to approval by the Civil Aeronautics Authority. Deadline for bids: September...