Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps the most serious in our entire system of criminal justice. There are not enough police properly to patrol the county and there are very few communities in the country where the training of police forces is adequate. . . . There are many cases ... in which the witnesses refuse to tell what they know, very often from a fear of the consequences at the hands either of the defendant or his friends. . . . This condition is especially true in what have received the common name of bootleg murders. Even when the witnesses are willing to testify, perjury is one of the most common...
...grew into confused monotony against a background of unpicturesque ether. Adam and Evil. Lew Cody plays both Adam Trevelyan and Adam's twin brother, Allan. Adam has wealth and a wife (Aileen Pringle); Allan is possessed of liabilities and a gold digger (Gwen Lee). The two women cannot tell the brothers apart, so one woman's husband becomes another woman's prey. Meanwhile Adam's wife, termed by the subtitle writer "his spare rib," almost floats to the wrong bosom...
...tell you TIME...
...best chapters tell of the author's early barnstorming adventures. Over Billings, Mont., with a pilot named Lynch, he attempted to draw a crowd by doing some wing-walking, throwing overboard a dummy, go that spectators would think Wing-Walker Lindbergh had fallen to his death. "We returned to our field and waited expectantly for the curious ones to come 'rushing out for information, but two hours later, when a few Montanans did arrive, they told us about one of the other attractions?a fellow who dived from an airplane into the Yellowstone River which was about three feet deep...
Sussex Welcome. Mrs. Bottomley and numerous faithful servants greeted "the master" at his home in Dicker, Sussex while an old gardener hobbled down to tell the delighted villagers that their squire-was out of jail. " 'E's a ticket o'-leave-man, still, though," said the gardener sadly, "the Marster, on account 'e is out o' jail two years early, 'as to put in 'is ticket to them? every month!" Soon the villagers hung out flags and other tokens to honor open-handed Squire Bottomley...