Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herreros went to the shore, though he was sick. To the King the Captain offered white man's medicine. All must drink. The King and his bodyguard agreed. Faithfully they drank the prescribed drink. It came in cases labeled HOLLAND GIN. After the warriors were quite senseless, 16 girls and four boys were kidnapped, to be sold as the first slaves at Jamestown, Va. Next morning the Dutchmen were far out and the Herreros could not chase them...
...Bolivia's, there was no choice but "to proceed in the same manner." The diplomatic negotiations were severed before any common sense steps had been taken and probably before the governments themselves really knew exactly what had happened at remote Fort Vanguardia. The significance of such diplomatic procedure-senseless and mischievous, though perfectly "correct" and "usual"-is of greater importance to the world than any additional blood which may be spilled between 2,155,000 Bolivians and 853,000 Paraguayans-scarcely as numerous as the denizens of Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens...
...some literature on Governor Smith. I want the non-political kind.' And he brought her downstairs, put her in an automobile and took her over to an office where a paper is published called The Fellowship Forum which, for a number of years, has been engaged in this senseless, foolish, stupid attack upon the Catholic Church...
...survivor, José Aguila, babbled: "lost our rudder and were dashed between two great rocks . . . waves 30 feet high . . . every lifeboat sank ... we fought for bits of floating timber ... I was knocked senseless and flung by the waves stark naked on the beach. ... I and a few others were saved only because God is great...
...from New York. California contains a curious mixture of wet Protestants, dry Catholics and vice versas. Thousands of Republicans were registered to vote in the Democratic primary. To predict a decisive Smith victory in California the margin of 10,000 votes quoted last week by Smith men seemed inadequate, senseless. Behind Candidate Walsh is William Gibbs McAdoo. Behind Candidate Reed is William Randolph Hearst. Behind Candidate Smith is onetime (1915-21) Senator James Duval Phelan, locally no less potent than McAdoo or Hearst but not clearly the Democratic strong-man of California able to combat the other two and confound...