Word: storms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Francis Neylan, now William Randolph Hearst's most trusted adviser, fought for a retrial, finally took her case on appeal up to the U. S. Supreme Court. The appeal was rejected in a decision which established the constitutionality of the Criminal Syndicalism Act. In 1927, after a storm of appeals from famed sympathizers, Governor Clement Calhoun Young gave Anita Whitney a pardon. To the chagrin of many a sympathizer, most of whom were mild liberals, Anita Whitney promptly marched back to the Communist battle line as an orthodox Stalinite. In the election which led to her arrest...
...busybodies. Forthwith, Newsman Pooley splashed over the first page of his second section what were, so far as he knew, the first photographs of a Caesarean section ever to appear in a lay journal. Down on his head that day and for several days thereafter beat the expected storm of criticism. Irate citizens charged him with bad taste, with needlessly shocking his readers, with exposing to public gaze an extremely private and intimate incident. Especially voluble were mothers including one whose small son had brought the pictures into her bridge club meeting, asked for an explanation. But an equal number...
...front page or the newsreel. The job of the professor is to teach,--not to make dilletante statements known not to be true. Possibly through the higher branches of mathematics, on can derive something from nothing, but mental queerness must be magnified many times before one can equate a "storm" of drunkenness "passing over Harvard" with one isolated, unfortunate case of janitorial abuse. The general sobriety apparent at the recent Lowell and Elito House Dances is sufficient justification for my statement. Add to it, however, the knowledge of the City Police, of the Yard Police, of the House Members...
...when he was most unruly and so poor that he had to economize on food. Beethoven still had the detachment to sit down and write the last great quartets. He died shaking his fist at a storm which was beating against his window. But Herriot. the preacher of peace, does not end his book there. He takes for a final text the choral ending to the Ninth Symphony, pleads, as did Beethoven, for a brotherhood...
...train freely for the coming Olympic Games. We have only to consult Bruno Malitz's book "Sports in the National Socialist Ideology" to find the roots from which springs the atavistic treatment of minorities in the realm of sport. To give Herr Malitz, a sports leader of the Storm Troops the floor...