Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the days of Poe, when the detective story was literature, it has de generated. Today, it is usually, writer and reader alike, a mere intel lectual concoction, a puzzle, dependent for interest entirely on its solution, but cast in literary form, with perhaps few thrills of horror thrown in for good measure. The two following examples belong to the latter development but, in their group, they are considerably above the average...
...moderate liberalism eventually clashed with the absolutism of Lenin-Trotzky; and, in 1922, when the latter decreed the confiscation of all church property, Patriarch Tikhon was thrown into jail for his opposition. The Red (Living) Church was promptly convened to unfrock him. Early in 1923, a Roman Catholic monsignor was beheaded. Tikhon, awaiting trial, prepared for the same fate. But Lenin halted. Tikhon signed a retraction and was freed...
...Laugh It Off" may start out on its long tour confident that any graduate in the open spaces who has bought tickets will get more than his money's worth, and that any graduate who hasn't bought tickets has only himself to blame. For among the commodities thrown in with the price are these...
Criminal Grand Jury indictments charging bribery, the receiving of bribes, conspiracy to defraud the U. S., had been obtained against Messrs. Doheny, Fall, Sinclair. Last week, the indictments were thrown out of court by Chief Justice Walter I. McCoy of the District of Columbia Supreme Court on a technical point (an assistant to the Attorney General had unlawfully appeared before the investigating Special Grand Jury). Mr. McCoy, a Democrat appointed by President Wilson, is credited with knowing the law well. His technical point will presumably be sus- tained when Messrs. Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, Government counsel, appeal...
Until last January, there had been no rain at the little cable port of Santa Elena since 1919. Marshes about the village had long been withered dry. Cattle, unfoddered for months, were shambling bags of bones, the sheep and goats desperately gnawed bales of paper ticker-tape thrown out by the telegraph company...