Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Andes to Buenos Aires rumbled a five-car train full of fully-armed Argentine soldiers. Behind, in a longer train, came the President-Elect of the U.S. If he gave thought to the soldiers ahead or to the "radical" bomb-plotters who had necessitated their presence, he did not show it. He gazed with placid satisfaction out of his car window at the Argentine's horizon-filling wheat ranches and pampas, at her myriad herds of kine and mutton...
...impersonate a U.S. revenue agent and frighten hush money out of unsophisticated speakeasy proprietors. So thought one Thomas Harris, alias James Marshall, of Brooklyn. His technique: enter speakeasy, consume drinks, ask pointed questions, drop dark hints, increase hints to threats if necessary, pretend to "telephone headquarters" and show a fake revolver (cigaret case) if absolutely necessary. If threatened in return or asked to show a badge, leave discreetly. The underworld name for this whole act is "shake-down...
...visitors had come to see the convicts' annual show. A cast of 60 criminals sang, danced, wisecracked through the musical comedy No, No, Nanette...
...orchestra pit to watch. Mima took the forester away from his wife with waggles of her physique; she made him commit the sins of the calendar and other more intimate ones, as blackmail and pandery. At last, it was the intention of the devil that the forester should show that he had lost even the virtue of mercy by killing Mima for her crimes. The forester refused to do this, restrained by the little grain of goodness that remains in mortals, however debased they may be grown. The devil's machine, a failure, tottered and crumpled all over...
Article 11 of the law new regulations provides for the admission of all candidates "whose examinations and school records in the judgement of the Committee on Admission, show them to be students of high academic distinction and of good moral character." This standard of judgement has been substituted for the average of seventy-five per cent in entrance tests that has been the mark of academic excellence What this substitution allows the Admissions Committee is a greater latitude in the exercise of a selective process...