Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Friday afternoon and Helen Wilkus, aged 7, was waiting in St. Casimir's Parochial School, Philadelphia, for her sister Eva, to take her home. Down the hallway came some boys. They pushed Helen into a corner of the sewing room, "for a punishment. ... Don't you dast turn around or leave that corner!" they said. . . Sister Eva never came. . . . Next morning a nun found a figure standing in the corner of the sewing room, stifling sobs. "It was awful dark and lonesome," said obedient Helen Wilkus. "Then the light came and I heard the sparrows and I wasn...
...Arthur Wontner), brilliant student. His devotion to his work as minister of a small parish preys upon her mind. Why should he stick in a mudhole? Why permit his ludicrous preaching to interfere with his attention to her? She hates his cloth, his parish, his sacrifice. The parish, in turn scorns her. For 20 years her husband has struggled to reconcile her to his life. With all the sincerity she can command for a repulsive duty, she strives to conquer her own antipathy. It is not strong enough. When Benjie stays late for choir rehearsal, she locks...
...attached to the automatic Orthophonic machine, run by electric motor. A mechanical "hand" puts on one record after another, up to a dozen. After the twelfth record, the machine automatically stops. The dancers, or listeners-to-sermons, or opera lovers, or synthetic concertgoers, can then, by a simple motion, turn the record magazine about and play the twelve "other sides." The whole score of a musical comedy will thus be made available to the corridors of a girl's boarding school without anyone's shouting, "Fix that phonograph, will you? I'm curling my hair!" Whole operas...
...poured into the motor next morning sped the getaway. With an offshore wind under tail, Captain Wilkins and his pilot, hardbitten Carl Ben Eielson, steered 25° west of north, and vanished out over the Arctic Ocean. The plan was to fly thus for six hours, then turn southwest, fly two hours, then turn back to Point Barrow. The territory thus circumscribed, 50,000 square miles lying polewards of Wrangel and Whitney islands had never been viewed by man.? It might contain land. . . . But Captain Wilkins did not return to Barrow as scheduled. After 82 hours his comrades...
...judicial system itself provides to protect its reputation for fairness by keeping men from being executed for one crime because they may perchance have shown themselves guilty of another. It has been hard for the public to understand this because some of the central issues in the case turn on important but technical principles of the law of evidence, while the material to, which these principles must be applied is of a kind to arouse strong prejudices which overwhelm the judgment...