Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their lapels posed as Reds. Women sobbed. The clerk droned: "Nicola Sacco, have you anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon you?" In the prisoners' box, a clean-shaven Italian, with a high forehead and a son named Dante, stood up. "Yes, sir, I, I am not an orator," said Nicola Sacco. "It is not very familiar with me, the English language. . . . I never know, never heard, even read in history anything so cruel as this court. . . . My comrade, the kind man, the kind man to all the children, you sentence him two times...
...miner, killed his mother with unwonted despatch and skill. He knew neither how nor why he came to kill her, he explained to the officers who arrested him, only that he found himself committing the murder. Because his explanation jibes with psychologists' theory of "automatism,"* British Home Secretary Sir Joynson-Hicks last week canceled the man's execution and ordered the Criminal Appellate Court to search for extenuating evidence...
...Sir Henry Lunn, famous English author and speaker, is to talk at the Phillips. Brooks Bouse on May 5. He is making a tour of the country, under the direction of the Institute of International Education, speaking on religious subjects...
Following close upon the heels of these two ladies come all the people of the court. Shakespeare played by Franklin F. Dexter '28 and Raleigh, portrayed by Donald Murchie '28, with veiled plots and boastful words; Sir Hudson Essex A. S. Bigelow '29, fully equipped, including spare, the handsome here of manly men and well-turned limb, who breaks hearts with a glance; Lady Evelyn, M. B. Wells '28 his true love and lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth, who continually interrupts the love making of this amourous couple. And shshsh! the villain, Ramon Pedro Jose etc, etc, etc, acted...
...Jesus was never moved from the path of duty however hard by public opinion. Why should I be?" "I believe that there is a Devil." "Counsellor Spencer tried to show that I sought a fat office in Washington. But I could triumph over them all. I said, 'No sir, I did not seek a fat office.'" "The closer art keeps to morality the higher is its grade." "Stood on barracks and looked off over the ocean as it lay basking in Moonlight's silvery rays. How grand the sight! Beautiful indeed." "I am called an obscene...