Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very familiar with me, the English language. . . . I never know, never heard, even read in history anything so cruel as this court. . . . My comrade, the kind man, the kind man to all the children, you sentence him two times . . . and you know he is innocent. . . . I forgot one thing which my comrade remember me. As I said before, Judge Thayer know all my life, and he know that I am never guilty, never-not yesterday nor today nor forever." The clerk droned again: "Bartolomeo
...hope of profits as illicit, of their kind, as any ever wrung by a conscienceless manufacturer from the labor of children at the loom. In the name of evangelism - that sacred word that has been defiled so often that it is at last almost a common butt - this horrible thing is being done." Readers wondered what the Christian Century was driving at. The author of the piece quickly made it clear that he was discussing the case of 14-year-old Uldine Utley, whose evangelical struggles had lately been endorsed by such stalwarts of the church as Dr. John Roach...
...writes for the slate which the wooden boy holds up in front of National Refining gasoline stations. Samples of Sir Charles Frederick's wit: "Love is fanned by a bank draft"; "Crossed cheques cheer cross women"; "A leaf began the fall"; "A little blonde is a dangerous thing"; "There is no fool like an old fool -unless it is a young one"; "Some cats have nine wives"; "Chickens should be well dressed...
...himself, in his retail stores, flouts the selling prices named by manufacturers of groceries, shoes and so forth [see below], . . . Ford apparently thinks he is entitled in his business to lay down rules for others, but that no other manufacturer in the country is entitled to do the same thing...
...jury system, if it be kept as free from politics as possible, is without doubt the best system, to my mind. The censorship is not then an immovable thing in black and white, but a living, progressive thing which changes with the times...