Word: soled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unless the complainant has sent messages of such a type that they should not be entitled to protection by any court. ... In no instance has a Congressional investigation ever held up to the public gaze documents of a private and personal nature." The Senate, argued its hireling, is the sole judge of its own subpoenas, is not subject to interference from the courts. There might be, Mr. Harris suggested, a "very unseemly and unfortunate conflict" if the Court enjoined Western Union from delivering the telegrams and the Senate demanded the telegrams under threat of jailing Western Union officials for contempt...
Last fortnight Albizu Campos walked into the office of the Federal District Attorney, said that he heard he was to be arrested, offered to surrender. His offer was declined. Next day the U. S. struck. Senor Albizu Campos was at court preparing to defend the sole survivor of last autumn's bombing expedition to the University, when he was asked to go over and be arrested. Six of his followers, including his personal secretary, the party secretary and two poets, were also arrested. While the Puerto Rican National Guard was held under arms in its armories, ready...
...crudeness of execution, notably "Falls at Scheffelhausen", which might almost be called modernistic in its conception; its harsh dynamic lines suggest symbolism or impressionism. "Pass of Faido" seems dark, stark, and dreary, and is painted in dull grey and browns. "Looking down from Florence toward Lucca" is Ruskin's sole really vivid contribution; done with sweeping dabs of blue and green, it is startling and very effective...
...that, recognition having been caught, they became scraps of paper. When the U. S. Congress ascertained the facts, it refused to appropriate the necessary $1,100,000 for U. S. Embassy & Consular buildings in the Soviet Union. Today Ambassador Bullitt, highly persona grata in Moscow, constitutes almost the sole friendly link between Moscow and Washington. Last week Comrade Litvinoff, obviously more worried than he cared to admit by the attention Mr. Howard had called to the Soviet-U. S. situation, bleated in Moscow: "The question of Communist propaganda is a stale subject about which there should be no further discussion...
...Sole excitement came at the start of the voyage when a great, smoke-like cloud suddenly covered the entire dirigible as the four crude-oil motors started. Spectators who feared the ship was afire soon learned that the cloud was only a two-year's accumulation of dust blown from the envelope in the slip stream...