Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great was the agitation in Washington over this affray. Mr. Lowman saw in it a direct challenge to the U. S. Government. Secretary of State Stimson called for a complete report from the Treasury Department, intimated that it might be made the subject of diplomatic representations to Canada. In it some officials thought they had a reverse of the I'm Alone case, talked of asking extradition of the criminals who had "attempted to murder" U. S. officers...
...year-old son, a neat child, found the dirty scraps of paper littering the table. He swept them together, clutched them up, pushed them into the fireplace. The flames spouted and little black cinders of money blew up the chimney throat. When Ion Gerghuta came back and saw what his son had done he killed him, swiftly. In another room Ion's wife was bathing her year-old baby. She heard her son scream and ran to him. When she returned, the baby had drowned in its bath water. Ion Gerghuta's wife ran from the house to the farm...
...Burnetts went to Chicago. She got a job in an office. He worked briefly in the Marshall Field department store. Burnett seldom saw his wife those days. At night he loafed around with gangsters and pugilists. He was getting material for his sixth novel, Little Caesar, and his seventh, Iron Man, a soon-to-be-published prize-ring story. Almost 100,000 people have bought Little Caesar. So Author Burnett is no longer a part-time novelist. At his ease in Tombstone, Ariz., he is working full-time on an eighth novel, about a U. S. soldier in the Southwest...
...entrance into pugilism was casual. "One time," he says in recently but well learned English, "I was in Muhlheim. I walked into a gymnasium. There I saw two men boxing. I said, 'That seems like good fun. Let me try.' So they gave me some gloves and I boxed. I knock...
Since their last split, after their 1926 football game, Harvard and Princeton have not participated in dual contests in any sport. Last week, however, sportsmen thought they saw first signs of a rapprochement in these two occurrences: Princeton Athletic Director Charles W. Kennedy was invited to officiate at the Harvard-Yale v. Oxford-Cambridge dual track meet. He accepted. Harvard Athletic Director William J. Bingham was invited to officiate at the Princeton-Cornell v. Oxford-Cambridge dual track meet. He too accepted...