Word: smiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a cat catches a mouse, that is not news. But if a mouse should tree a cat, editors would smite their thighs...
...petition for the recall of Gov. Roland H. Hartley. They needed 97,576 signatures in order to bring about a special election. "It will be easy," said the little group. "We will have 100,000 signatures by Dec. 1. The people of the state will leap to smite that man Hartley. He has abused the powers of his office; he has been responsible for the dismissal of that good educator, Dr. Henry Suzzallo, from the presidency of the University of Washington...
...Welsh trouble is on this story; a gypsy wandering and a sad chivalry. He found Danzel again?but he flung away the shilling, into a California river under the broad moon. It was a strange token for such a book, through which the pulses of many lives smite vividly, stirred by a magnificent raconteur, who can make of his pen a witch's twig, a sword, a paint brush. A Welshman, Author Jones is dramatic critic of the San Francisco Examiner. This is his first novel...
...housewife whose husband comes a bit unsteadily home point at him the finger of scorn, for if he has been drinking German wine he has done a patriotic duty and he may well smite his breast and proudly assert the fact." '"Formerly all true Germans were called upon to lay down their lives upon the field of battle, which they gladly did. Today I call upon every patriot to drink more wine...
...Golden Cocoon. This is another error. It is a political story about a girl with a suspicious past which is about to rise up and smite her legislative husband on the eve of election day. It is played by Helene Chadwick and solved with a pistol shot...