Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...October 1934, the California Supreme Court snatched David Lamson back from the shadow of the gallows, granted him a new trial. Declared the Court: "It is true that he may be guilty, but the evidence thereof is no stronger than mere suspicion...
...Businessman." One political effect of Republican enthusiasm over Governor Landon was to cast a shadow over another Midwesterner also entirely available for the Republican nomination. Still pursuing an unspectacular program, Publisher William Franklin Knox of the Chicago Daily News was scurrying around through the midlands rallying small groups to his support. Concentrating last week on Ohio, he joyfully told diners at the 33rd annual McKinley Day banquet of the Tippecanoe Club of Cleveland that a "cataclysmic division" was rending the Democracy which "will be fatal to the Democratic success in November...
...finished Wace's happiness: he took to drink, married a grateful prostitute. In middle age, both separated from their wives and each with a grown-up child, the enemies were settled in London. Sharpies began to dog Wace's trail again, went out of his way to shadow him, wrote him letters. . . . Gradually Wace became convinced that Sharpies' hounding was a deliberate incitement to murder. He fought against it as long as he could, eventually let himself be incited...
...those elements even in our day which still cast a shadow over the precepts of brave love, freedom, tolerance, honest kindness and the simple search for truth find further hinderance by this another commemoration of the season which gave the Man and his philosophy birth. And as the wish for the Christmas season leaves our lips may it have less of that idiomatic insincerity which the materialism of our age so easily breeds; and ring real for a truly "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year...
...only the shadow of such legislation has fallen upon New Hampshire. House Bill No. 48--the bill that would have denied the rights of "any political party which advocates the overthrow of or carries on a program against local, state or national government--" failed to find a place in the laws of the state last February. It seems unbelievable that a New Hampshire oath bill could be passed, that here at Dartmouth an Administration which has stood behind liberalism might be driven to comply with such a law if it were passed. But it happened at Harvard . . . . and Tufts...