Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week-eleven weeks and 1,600,000 words of court record after the Burnses' services to Oilman Sinclair went on trial-Son Burns stood up in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to receive his sentence. Justice Siddons asked if he had anything further to say...
...your Honor," said Son Burns, "I would ask mercy for my father . . . I must say I feel that a great injustice has been done my father...
Senator Wheeler (snappishly): "Do you mean to say that you refuse to answer...
...famed William Somerset Maugham as an indictment of those unfortunate U. S. women who, by purchasing the titles of European nobility and then noisily misconducting themselves, seem less to deserve their elaborate and acquired nomenclature than the simple label slut. To this honking propaganda, a modern audience dares say "Boo!" The play is a rapidly ironic comedy of bad manners. Ina Claire lends it the exciting charm of her acting and her tireless beauty...
...that is why scientists, save for Dr. William Temple Hornaday, for 30 years director of the New York Zoological Garden, disbelieved the story of the Eastland horned toad. It might have lived, the questioned authorities say, one, two or even five years within the sealing of the stone, but never a human generation...