Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grim police sergeant, four detectives from the bomb squad, ten patrolmen swinging their shiny clubs, and a score of agitated friends met him in Manhattan. They escorted him through the Grand Central Terminal to his limousine, where a motorcycle corps took up the task of guarding his throat. Santa Lucia! If the Camorra wanted a man, they usually got him. And was Gigli, "the World's Greatest Tenor," to be sacrificed to the knife of some berserk Black Hander? So ran the talk in Gigli's apartment, where he was reunited to his wife and children...
...larger than her own family needs, sold produce to neighbors. Here among the cabbage tops, the bean vines and the other garden truck Henry John used to play. In the house basement he used to watch his mother pickling and canning. The grating of horseradish was an eye-smarting task. But Mrs. Heinz' preparation of this root was so appetizing that it found a ready sale. Henry John was its eager boy salesman...
After hitting the top of their schedule last week in a close win over the Eli quintet at New Haven, the University basket tossers are faced with the task of maintaining their stride against the Brown five in Hemenway Gymnasium at 8 o'clock tonight. The Providence court squad will be the last opposition of the season at the University and the last game before the final contest at Worcester Polytechnic next week...
...Significance. There is a rigid directness about this story, a dramatic intensity achieved without sensational devices, that makes it notable. Mrs. Millin's is a disciplined intelligence that can find important work close at hand and perform its task without ostentation. Her book is a sort of Main Street in the Greek manner. There is severity, clarity, grave pity...
...Author. Martin Hume of England brings scholarly documentation to his task. He was the official editor of the Spanish State Papers of the period (Public Record office), a careful student of all other relevant material, some of it newly accessible. He is author also of The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth, currently republished to match this volume. "Infernal Searchers...