Word: short
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Inquisitor Walsh propounded a question of legal ethics, suggesting that plump, dapper, white-haired Lawyer Martin W. Littleton might well resign as Sinclair's lawyer. At Sinclair's last trial, Lawyer Littleton said that Sinclair was in no wise connected with the Continental Trading Co., a mysterious, short-lived oil-trading company out of whose profits, transformed into Liberty Bonds, the G. O. P. is now known to have received $160,000 from Sinclair for its Harding campaign deficit. Unless Lawyer Littleton lied to the jury, which Inquisitor Walsh felt was unthinkable, Sinclair must have lied...
Concerning crime, the fat Mayor said, as he relaxed in bedroom slippers and short-sleeved, open-necked sport shirt in his hotel suite: "Sure, we have crime here. We always will have crime. Chicago is just like any other big city. You can get a man's arm broken for so much, a leg for so much, or beaten up for so much. Just like New York or any other big city-excepting we print our crime here and they...
Amsterdam is the city of drab workmen who cut and polish brightest diamonds, the home of landlubbing watermen who pole barges along slow canals, the habitat of buxom and sensible stenographers who pedal to work each morning upon thousands of bicycles. Amsterdam, in short, is the last place where one would expect to hear-during the decent forenoon hours, and from a stately mansion-a sequence of revolver shots...
Forty-two horses came out of the paddock gate and moved up the midway to the barrier. Some walked quietly and lightly, with the jockeys sitting up high to save their backs even in this short walk; others skittered sideways, excited by the sight of other horses, by the crowd (250,000) that showed like a dark ocean along the fences, washing up into a wave in the grandstand. It had been raining in the morning, but the rain had stopped; the sky was full of shifting clouds through which the sunlight shone in patches. Three times the horses, picked...
Burns, who has been filling in at short during Sullivan's absence this spring, will resume his regular position at center field. Jones, a regular on last year's nine, will probably win the call of the right field post. The choice for the third position in the outer circuit will fall among Deven,s Durkee, and Hardie. Devens and Hardie were regulars on the Freshman team last year, while Durkee was a substitute on the University squad...