Word: straightway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Straightway Sir John Simon, chairman of the Commission, famed Liberal barrister, sat briskly down at his desk, last week, and drew up an offer designed to conciliate 318,940,000 Indians, some thousands of whom rioted in Madras, Calcutta & Bombay last fortnight, in protest against the Commission and notably against the fact that no Indian sits upon...
When the Diet reassembled, last week, to complete its winter sessions, Prime Minister Baron Guchi Tanaka found that the long shaky coalition support of his cabinet was disintegrating and straightway took dramatic action...
Looking harassed and anxious, Secretary Wilbur spent Christmas even seeing and hearing more for himself at Provincetown. He ordered the S-4 to be salvaged straightway. The divers tunneled under the S-4 in two places, to attach lifting chains. The Atlantic raged, delaying the work...
...broke the contour of his well tailored person by sticking out in unsightly bulge. Forthwith a sheriff, stationed in the office, pounced upon this benevolent oldster, searched him thoroughly. The bulge turned out to be a large, red apple. The kindly gentleman turned out to be Herman W. Booth. Straightway he was marched to gaol...
...that the bodies be burned or buried before sunset the Friday following Execution Tuesday. Boston health officials extended the time to Sunday. When the brains and hearts of the corpses had been removed for examination by Harvard medicos, Massachusetts returned what remained of its prisoners to their friends, who straightway sought a public hall for a public wake. But Boston hall owners refused to lease their property. Owners of the building in which the Defense Committee had offices caused a stout joist to be nailed in the building's doorway so that no coffin might be carried in. The Defense...