Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hoped again for Executive clemency. After a few days she complained to the jail authorities of being ill. They allowed her to go home for the night. When they called for her the next morning they found her gone. She and Warren Harding Hozer had started to Washington in search of clemency...
...present Mr. Mellon's ruling is causing much interesting speculation upon the fate of the proposal for a twelve-mile limit of the right of search and seizure. As yet no word either favorable or unfavorable has come from the nations approached. But wiseacres are nodding their heads and proclaiming that the new ruling was made because rumors, unheard by the public, of determined opposition to the President's reciprocal proposal have come to the government. When Great Britain, insisting upon the universal three-mile limit, has come off victorious so recently in its tiff with Russia, acceptance...
Verner Warren Clapp 2G., whose disappearance on Thursday, May 17, was the cause of a state-wide search to ascertain his whereabouts, is now at his home in Dover, N. R., according to information received from his cousin last night...
...result that sounds very American. There was a bomb scare. The " authorities grew excited with fancies of bomb-throwing in the opera house, when the revolutionaries saw that the capitalists still had the boxes. Precautions were necessary. The officials ordered a force of soldiers to the opera house to search all who entered, and further gave forth the regulation that no one might go into the auditorium with a cloak or coat, since such were adapted to conceal bombs. Every wrap must be checked at the cloak room...
...gala night came. The public, respectfully heeding the great maestro's command that no late comer be admitted, arrived in early crowds. They were greeted by a file of soldiers who lined the lobby and began searching everybody. The search went slowly and the crowd swelled before the theatre. The people who had been searched trooped back to check their cloaks. In the cloakroom stood the same single old fellow of yore. Nobody had thought of putting on extra help for the wholesale cloak checking. Between these two sources of delay only a few hundred people got into the auditorium...