Word: stand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unsatisfactory present methods are was shown at a recent meeting of Massachusetts assessors. It was reported in the press that when Commissioner Henry F. Long asked those assessors who had not violated the oath of office to stand, no one arose. In the financial comment in the Boston Herald of December 13, 1929, it was stated, referring to current selling of stocks to register losses for the reduction of federal income tax payments.--"The psychology of tax evasion is peculiar. Men scrupulously honest in money matters in general apparently feel no compunction about adopting any schemes which are legal which...
...Tulsa World once openly charged that Col. Hurley was trying to rise to political heights purely on his good looks. Fairer observers, however, recall how he won a famed murder trial for a Tulsa friend simply by the intonation of his "Yesses" and "Noes" on the witness stand...
...convenient and unusual thing to have behind the false wall of a private vault is the boudoir of your mistress; 2) very mysterious shooting may be accomplished by planning to have the bullets, instead of striking directly, bounce off some such household object as a chandelier, umbrella stand or commode. Playwright Hugh Stanislaus Stange's thriller will appeal to small boys, but perhaps they had better not be allowed to see Miss Florence Johns's harrowing portrayal of a dope fiend...
...rehash, throws an edition into print and out upon the streets ahead of competitors, that edition is a "bulldog" edition. Chicago's Herald & Examiner ("Herex") publishes a "bulldog" edition on Sunday afternoons. Last week this edition carried a story about one Rocco Maggio, badman. "Herex" said Maggio would stand trial next day on a statutory (sex) offense against a 14-year-old girl whom he had since married...
...Editor's Note):--The CRIMSON's correspondent has evidently misinterpreted its stand on the Dining Hall charge. The CRIMSON did not deprecate the primary advantage of the House Plan that it can put a stop to continual "eating around". Neither did it imply that upperclassmen have some sentiment about breaking an established attachment with the Georgian. The CRIMSON contended, and to date finds no good reason for the withdrawal of that contention, that a disproportionately high weekly rate requiring an absurdly large number of meals to be eaten in the House will work hardship on many students. It pointed particularly...