Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farm. That was down in Maine, though. Anyway, these bells seem to ring whenever I feel like lying down and taking a nap. And they are a nuisance, sir, a public nuisance. I want you to print this letter in your newspaper and maybe that will do something to stop this confounded dingle-dangle for thats all it is. Truly 'yours.' "Veteran...
...ghost with the bearing of Metternich walks in Germany again. An emergency decree empowers local authorities to stop gatherings which they regard likely to disturb public order, to suppress papers which attack religious organizations, slander public figures, or incite to violence, and to dissolve any societies which fail to keep the peace...
Encore! Mr. Justice Holmes said in part: "The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: 'The work is done...
...controversy brings up another question that cries out for answer. Is it not full time to stop setting up religious war memorials of any kind? The churches, with a few honorable exceptions, blessed the last war, just as they have blessed every preceding one--and just as they will bless the next one, we are tempted to add. But during the past few years some of our prominent religious leaders have professed repentance, and have declared that they will be on the side of peace next time even when the drums beat. If their professions mean anything, they ought...
...senior. He had snooped, tattled, aided Federal agents in raiding a college rooming house and a student-patronized speakeasy. It was pointed out that McChord Christie had himself once engaged in legging. Said he: "I am on the other side now, though, and I am not going to stop until I have cleaned up college bootlegging in Lexington...