Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Authorities who assert that President Coolidge's "I do not choose" is a dialect expression peculiar to Vermont seem to have overlooked something that ought to be familiar. Let them turn to "Alice in Wonderland." In that world-wide classic "The Walrus and the Carpenter," they will find...
...Governor Smith acted with dispatch, and ordered the inquiry himself. Last fortnight he appointed Justice Townsend Scudder of the New York Supreme Court to hear the evidence. Justice Scudder in turn chose special counsel to collect the evidence and prosecute. Justice Scudder's choice of a prosecutor was interesting because it brought into play against the Irish-American political tradition represented by President Connolly, two wholly opposite traditions personified in Lawyer Emory Roy Buckner...
...Said he: "All you need is a blueprint and you can fit it before you even go down there. There is nothing involved about an airline coupling with those tubes. ... It seems as though air should have been got to them before. It's enough to make the dead turn over in their graves...
...thing nobody thought of. . . . The Public was invited to do with the Prisoners as they pleased. In consequence many a helpless prisoner was slashed with penknives and spat upon as the group tramped their sorrowful way to execution. . . . Five rifles spat their leaden charge. Five bodies ln turn wilted to rise no more. . . ." Thus the South China Morning Post of Hongkong described, last week, the typically Chinese epilogue to an ugly two-day uprising at Canton, fomented by Soviet Russian Communists. The sole eye-witness account of this revolt to be cabled to the U. S. came from...
WORLDS' ENDS-Jacob Wassermann -Boni & Liveright ($2.50). This is what happens to individuals when their particular worlds turn end for end, says Author Wassermann in effect. He proceeds to cite "case histories": Peasant Adam studied his only son for signs of weak character so long and so truculently that the heir killed himself. The father, remorseful, claimed to have murdered the boy; hung himself. Golovin, voluble Russian revolutionist, had in his power a woman for whom he craved. To her he talked all night about his vicious deeds and cynical philosophy and in the morning left her unharmed, still...