Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prosecution admitted having called Maury "a crumb." Maury's 14-year-old daughter drew a picture of a devil with a forked tail, labeled it "Gittinger" ("Buck" Gittinger, Shock's assistant). Judge Bryce Ferguson, "Ma" Ferguson's nephew, slumped down in his chair almost out of sight, looked up occasionally to quote from memory long passages of law. Defense Counsel Carl Wright Johnson, one of Texas' most eloquent bull-roarers, snorted that conspiracy testimony was stronger against Shook and Burkett, bellowed: "I don't think there is a man on the jury who would send...
...week's end the relief situation in Ohio was still critical. Hundreds of tons of foodstuffs from Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. were poured into the State. President Roosevelt approved the expenditure of $1,248,991 for three new WPA projects. Cleveland saw some new money for relief in sight as its City Council approved the sale of $1,200,000 worth of bonds against delinquent taxes. But these were only stopgaps...
...temporary expedient could solve Ohio's problem. Only solution in sight is through the passage of enabling legislation by the rural-dominated General Assembly, which would allow Ohio's cities, now legally hog-tied, to raise sufficient taxes for relief. But the chance of Governor Bricker calling a special session this year, thus opening the floodgates to old-age pension bills, and possibly having the State treasury's handsome 1939 surplus swept away, was remote. This was what still kept the gossips gossiping...
...full of faith and sureness, who could say about the deaths of Mio and Miriamme: "This is the glory of both men and women." Perhaps things like that were easier to say and believe a few years ago than now--but it is hardly a happy sight to face a stark demonstration of that fact...
...final game of the evening saw Leverett, after coming within sight of victory during the first half, bow before a superior Dormitory combine, 4 to 1. The out-of-House team included a number of veteran pucksters who are ineligible for the Varsity squad because they are on probation...