Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of reasons why this greying ramrod of a public servant has waked up, a popular one being that his prosecution of the oil gangsters excited the admiration of potent political patronesses, such as Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, president of the Women's National Democratic Club, who in turn have taught Senator Walsh to appreciate himself. Another theory is that, after his wife died in 1917 towards the end of his first term in the Senate, he turned to politics with fresh concentration as other bereaved men will turn to business, pleasure or a new wife. He started life...
...report said: "The percentages . . . are so low that one no longer wonders why so many individuals turn to crime. It would appear to be about the safest business in which one could engage...
...Commons: "I am speaking as an English gentleman upon what I think is an outrage on humanity. . . . I believe this [film] account of the execution to be fully apocryphal [i. e. fictitious or spurious]. I feel that it is an outrage upon a noble woman's memory to turn to purposes of commercial profit so heroic a story...
...Italy and Serbia [Jugoslavia], outwardly we have no set policy, sympathy or antipathy toward either one of the disputants, nor to the subject of the dispute-Albania. "We have no allies outside of Russia who definitely have undertaken to come to our defense should the fatherland be invaded. In turn, we shall go to Russia's assistance should that country's territorial integrity be menaced by more than one power...
...Marines dashed so madly over rough Chinese roads to save the honor of a pretty American missionary, lured to a mandarin's den. Heavy with leers, threats, murders and stabbings, the dolorous drama follows Pauline Starke as the girl who loves Marine Kenneth Harlan, who is in turn loved by wicked Margaret Livingston. Evil sticks up like potatoes in Irish stew. It is all excessively Chinese, silly...