Word: soon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Budapest last week Hungary's new War Minister Julius ("No Mattresses!") Goembos,* laid before Parliament a new, drastic military penal code restoring the penalty of flogging. The measure is as good as passed since it was introduced with the full approval of Dictator Stephen Bethlen.† Soon many a Hungarian soldier will receive an old fangled flogging thus: He strips to the waist. Meanwhile whips have been doled out to the men of his company and they line up in double ranks, facing inward. Down the alley of whips the delinquent must march, not too slowly, or a soldier...
...mistrial. Mildness seemed the new motive. When the Aderholt trial reopened with 12 sane jurors, the prosecution had lessened the indictments to second-degree, had quashed all charges against nine defendants. Liberals and conservatives again pointed a proud finger to Judge Barnhill, unruffled, scrupulously ruling. But the approving fingers soon wavered. When Judge Barnhill, following a North Carolina statute of 1777, ordered a witness's disbelief in a punishing God admitted in evidence to lessen the force of her testimony, liberals cried out in dismay. The witness was Mrs. Clarence Miller, young wife of one of the defendants. Said...
...Needless to say, a comely Northerner (Alan Prior) eases her heart. Two of Composer Youman's best tunes, the lingering "Without A Song," the jubilant "Great Day," are magnificently reverberated by an Afric choir of 40 voices led by Mr. Lois Deppe. Other Youmans' melodies which will soon reach ballroom and loudspeaker: "Happy Because I'm In Love," "More Than You know," "Open Up Your Heart...
...jobs on which Herr Kreuger worked as engineer. He also helped to plan and build the Syracuse Stadium, which the late, great Rockefeller-partner John D. Archbold paid for. In 1907 Herr Kreuger returned to Stockholm where, with Paul Toll, he formed the construction firm of Kreuger & Toll. Soon office buildings, apartments, hotels, began to change the Stockholm skyline. Real estate and construction have now become a Kreuger sideline, but most of the modern business structures of Stockholm are Kreuger-built and many are Kreuger-owned. The Construction Period lasted six years; then in 1913, Herr Kreuger entered the match...
...remainder of the letter deals with other subjects. If I wrote immediately to Mr. Barton, as I believe that I did, my exultation was premature. Another surprise was in store for me. So soon after the first letter that even now its promptness is unintelligible, I received a second one:-- North-East Harbor, Maine August...