Word: straightway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having convicted the racketeers, Special Prosecutor Dewey straightway last week went after the racketeers' lawyers. To the New York City Bar Association he sent the names and misdeeds of two lawyers who had done legal work for last week's defendants...
...government to the Boers, only four years after the war ended. Smuts was struck all of a heap. "Has such a miracle of trust and magnanimity ever happened before? Only people like the English could do it. They may make mistakes, but they're a big people." Smuts straightway buried the hatchet, tried to get his brother-Boers to do likewise. When he took office under Botha, who became Prime Minister, both were accused by diehard Boers of being turncoats. Botha was the popular idol but Smuts was the brains of the administration. Discontented criticism centred...
...Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men. , . . He saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets. And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him. And they went to Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered the synagogue and taught. . . . -Mark, I: 17-22. In the Smithsonian Institution in Washington one day last week, a swart Assyrian-born scholar named Dr. George...
When word was flashed to Athens that the indiscreet Greek was straightway murdered and that his home was in Crete, no attention was paid by Greek Royalist Dictator Kondylis (see p. 21). The Greek island of Crete is notoriously a hotbed of Republicans...
...Chicago Press, once over the difficulty of Bauer's dreadful injury by calling it variously "penknife mutilation," "sex-operation," "rude emasculation," straightway pointed "The Finger of Suspicion" at Mandeville Zenge...