Word: tilman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the compromise had passed a second reading-which virtually assures its final passage-in the House of Assembly, the Deputies trooped into the tea room where they found a monster "peace cake", dedicated to Minister of Justice Tilman Roos. On its sugar-coated top, in pink icing, were the names of all the Cabinet Ministers. Soon; laughing and munching, the Deputies sank their flag differences in chaff and good-humored badinage...
...already beginning to show characteristics of his father." Strychnine, antidote for an ominous heredity, had twisted the limbs and belly 'of the male child, 18 months old-had screwed the face of his sister, 3, into a last grimace. The woman, one Mrs. M. D. Tilman of Chicago, had finished the bottle herself. She lay dead, face down on a soiled rug, while the breath of a spring evening ruffled her skirt and played with the fringe of the curtain. Clutched in her hand was a copy of Ibsen's A Doll's House...