Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gene in front of some of the best scenery that every emanated from the Publix studios. The exact idea is rather difficult to grasp but it seems there was a hunting party. Mr. Rodemich's frenetic drummer is quite delighted with his little hunting cap. It's a good thing too--the boy has not been a bit contented since he wore that toga plus a hair-ribbon come these two weeks...
Hungary has in this taken a step worthy of emulation. Prompt and scientific action on the part of the detective service can lead only to equally efficient action by the courts, so that the escape of offenders may be expected to become a thing of the past. At a time when American methods and agents are being subjected to intense scrutiny, it might be well, if only to bolster public confidence, to follow the lead of Europe in dealing with and reducing the extraneous part of the population...
...Before my God I am innocent as a child unborn. I knew nothing about this thing until it was all over . . . !" The judge looked sharply at the great detective, who slumped back into his chair humiliated. The judge gazed out the window again, then made a long speech in a low voice. ". . . That he [Father Burns] knew of this surveillance I cannot doubt, and that he knew it from the time it began." The judge concluded: ". . . You are guilty of contempt of court. . . . Men of high character sometimes make mistakes. Your sentence is fifteen days in the Washington jail...
...replied: "I cannot understand why there should be breadlines and unemployment in a nation so rich as America. . . . Nowhere in Russia, regardless of whether the nation is prospering or not, will you find men without coats, standing in breadlines, waiting for a handout. . . . That is one thing which the Soviet has accomplished which is not a theory but a fact...
...distance. So Janet lost Rosalind; and all that remained was a great emptiness. She could indeed have filled it with the traditional affairs of her mother-in-law the duchess-soup kitchens, canons, Agatha Bazaar-but much as she loved tradition, she was too modern for that kind of thing. So she fell miserably in love with her husband, although all he had asked, and still asked, of her was that she bear him companionship-and an heir. This...