Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazi Germany, caused by the gigantic public works program and feverish rearmament efforts. Bird No. 2: serious unemployment in Czecho-Slovakia, caused by German grab of Czech industrial areas and the pre-Munich influx of refugees from Austria and the Sudetenland. Last week Prague and Berlin devised a stone to kill both birds: a plan to send 80,000 to 100,000 unemployed Czech workmen to Germany. Time: this spring...
When Justice Harlan Stone remarked that "courts are not the only agency of government that must be assumed to have the capacity to govern," he not only provided invaluable raw material for the Court's most vocal critics, but also exposed in crystalline form a fundamental weakness in what was then the attitude of a majority of his colleagues. Reflection of his views, and a program for the future creation of a more tolerant sort of legal mind, are to be found in Dean Landis' most recent annual report...
...trial yesterday, Judge Arthur H. Stone, who last fall passed sentence on four Freshmen for breaking up a Legion Parade, dismissed the larceny charge as a misdemeanor, and took no action on the drunkenness...
...White's The Sword in the Stone (Putnam, $2.50) is a heady mixture of fantasy and fact, legend and history, with other assorted literary liquors-poorly blended and served lukewarm, disguised as cambric tea. This potion the Book-of-the-Month Club has chosen for its New Year's wassail. The brew is not potent enough to make a reader pass out, but it may make some heads giddy...
...English country lover, in appearance much like his beloved cocker spaniel. He has the same alert, thoroughbred look, the same wavy hair. He lives in a gamekeeper's cottage near Stowe, where he is now writing his ninth book, on falconry. Best passages in The Sword in the Stone are the descriptions of sporting events: a boar hunt in which the master huntsman's dog is cruelly killed, the pursuit of an escaped falcon which is deep in the molt and not in yarak (proper condition for flying...