Word: tice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Investigate, Secretary Jardine did. Last week he was still investigating. It was known that the Departments of Jus tice and Commerce were also sniffing about the Midwestern brokerages. But not one of the investigators had yet run upon any proof of correspondence between the Messrs. Livermore and Howell nor any records of sales in those gentlemen's names executed in other than legitimate "contract" markets. As far as the evidence went, it was mere business acumen that had moved them separately to sell their grain at the same time and keep on selling until it was time...
...returned, after talking with many another uneasy educator, and many young men and women, earnest no end and either utterly complacent or badly worried over themselves. Dr. Angell wrote a report: "College is no longer a place for those who wish to become cultured. It is a social prac- tice ground. Men and women come here to make friends and to carry on mutual undertakings that require a certain amount of polish. . . . What with athletic practice, committee meetings, play and musical rehearsals, moving pictures, dances, intercollegiate games, and-what is worse-hours and hours of idle talk about these...
...shoots her in the second act. By the end of the evening, they have agreed that they love each other. From every normal point of view, it seems entirely probable that he will shoot her again in a week or two. As his aim grows progressively better with prac tice, he will no doubt succeed in killing her off before the year is out. Katherine Cornell gave to the part of the shallow, feline wife an acrid brilliance that justified in part the so-called entertainment. A most doggedly unpleasant wife, yet somehow crookedly alluring, she made the author...
...notorious Communist Mayor of Douarnenez in Finistere is dead. He was known throughout France for his bolshecratic manner of meting out Jus- tice. At his funeral, Bolsheviki paraded, waved red flags. Priests, called in by the family to officiate at the burial, declined to countenance the carrying of the flags: bitter, bad words from the Communists; hard, harsh tones from the Priests. A compromise was finally reached. The Communists retired to the end of the procession with their flags, while the Priests and nonCommunists marched ahead...