Word: sented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspapers devoted much attention to the incident or explored its sociological implications. But Bernarr Macfadden's horror-loving New York Evening Graphic sent a man out to pose and photograph the Widow Kolesar lamenting in a cornfield. The photograph was published under the caption: She stood in tears amid the alien corn...
...intoxicated. U. S. agents seized him. A U. S. court in West Virginia convicted him of violating the Volstead Act, which specifically permits the manufacture of "non-intoxicating cider and fruit juice" for home use. Last week at Richmond the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the conviction, sent Sam Picalas and his elderberry wine back to West Virginia for retrial, with orders that a jury pass on whether or not this beverage was intoxicating in fact...
Some grape-growing industrialists resent the activity of vineyardists who sell their juice for winemaking. To the Federal Farm Board last week they sent as their representative Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime Assistant U. S. Attorney-General, to explain such "questionable practices," to try to induce the Board to withhold loans to growers who attempt to evade the intent of Prohibition. Farm Board Chairman Legge explained that his Board had nothing to do with Prohibition...
...sculptor's friends maintained he was sent to the asylum on a false and illegal petition of his brother, Walter Ludwig Dreyfuss, wax-paper manufacturer. The sculptor's friends asked for a jury trial saying: "His sanity can be established before any judge or tribunal." This was denied them. After three hours, the bewildered Dreyfuss, as his own chief witness, spoke of the time he was losing while he was incarcerated. In a calm, plaintive voice he said: "I am 49 years old. I can never regain these days I am losing. I harbor no ill will toward...
Perspiring freely, Newsman Spaeth hung up, blurted out his story to City Editor A. E. M. Bergener. A hard-boiled newsman, City Editor Bergener was skeptical. He recalled how he had sent a reporter to the residence of Mrs. Charles Long Cutter, Mrs. Lindbergh's grandmother, earlier in the day. The reporter had reported "No interview." Still, there was just a chance. The News had been courteous to Mrs. Lindbergh when she visited Cleveland just before her marriage. Perhaps the Lindberghs had remembered that, decided to return the courtesy. City Editor Bergener ordered another newsman to telephone the Cutter...