Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...February, 1926. Governor Smith started to gather up the papers on the case as though satisfied with the alibi. The U. S. Postal Inspector who had arrested Saunders, passed a letter to the Governor. The latter eyed it, eyed Saunders sharply, swore him, assured him that perjury was as serious in New York as swindling in Georgia, showed him the letter...
That, of course, was a Ku Klux Klan demonstration as well as a Southern demonstration. Nevertheless, its sheer, insensate violence made people wonder how serious was the likelihood of many Southern Democrats splitting away from their Northern brethren over Nominee Smith this autumn...
...concept of a treaty "outlawing war." Having lectured on the topic years before Secretary Kellogg took it up, he recently approved the present draft, saying: "The Multilateral anti-war Treaty, if signed this summer, will have right of way in the Senate next winter. ... I look for no serious fight against its ratification...
...death, whereupon Salvo generously awarded the boy with education, and a position as foreman of sulphur mines. Influenced somewhat by her father's high opinion of Aurelio, Dianella fell glowingly in love with the youth. Meanwhile, what with strikes and lockouts at the mines, the situation became so serious that Salvo decided to abandon the project of marrying the girl to Lando Laurentano and to give her instead to Aurelio, if that young man could quell the uprising of laborers. But the insensate miners greeted the representative of their inexorable master with knives and firebrands, and when Dianella heard...
...publicly known. She is a player of chess; her favorite novel is Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage; she is beautiful but apparently intelligent. Jane Carroll had, whether by inspiration or divine intervention, a severe toothache when reporters called last week. Said she: "I always wanted to sing serious roles, and I cannot tell you how happy I am. No, I am not married. ... All things are within the realm of possibility. . . . My father will come from his home in Reading, Pa., to attend my debut. My real name was Helen Howard, you know. Mother died some years...