Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President himself cannot pretend to have the time for detailed investigation. But the fine minds of the citizens are available for the search. So you will know why when you hear of more and more temporary committees, commissions, conferences, researches?that they are not for Executive action but are one of the sound processes for the search, production and distribution of the truth. . . . The people will take care of progress if the Government can put the signs on the road...
Members of his staff professed themselves as mystified as any necromancer's audience, began a frantic search of Foochow and vicinity...
...Hansel and Gretel's father was a good-for-nothing. All fortunate enough to have been taken to Engelbert Humperdinck's opera know that he makes his entrance dancing a jig, brandishing a bottle. Because of him, Hansel and Gretel are raggedy, hard-working children who must search the woods for strawberries, thus falling into the clutches of a horrid old witch who comes near to eating them...
...serious-minded young governess has a good but disagreeable job with a horribly inconsiderate rich family, who treat her like a servant, search her room when anything: is missing. The English tutor never speaks to her in the daytime, but tries to get into her room every night. When everything has gone hopelessly wrong, one night she leaves the door ajar...
...commissioners, U. S. District Judge Paul John McCormick, returned to his Los Angeles home for the holidays. There, "speaking as an individual," he gave an interview on the commission's work, in which he saw two major problems-Prohibition enforcement and "governmental lawlessness." Deploring the search of private homes by Dry agents without warrants, he observed...