Word: veined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...removed to the State Prison Farm at Milledgeville on June 20, 1915. On the night of July 17, William Creen, a murderer serving a life sentence, slashed Frank's throat with a butcher knife. "I guess they've got me," groaned Frank, blood pouring from his jugular vein. But they had not yet "got" him. Physicians took 25 stitches in his neck, saved his life until the early morning of Aug. 17. Then 25 masked men raided the Prison Farm, seized Frank in his night clothes, streaked cross-country by automobile to Marietta where Mary Phagan had been...
...railroad construction gang, who discovered the mine and now lives on a pension (doled out in small amounts so that he will not disappear for too long at a time). There they went down into the bowels (4,134 ft.) of the earth to see the quartz gold vein being hacked. From Porcupine they planned to go to Kirkland Lake and Noranda mines and fly back to Toronto and New York prepared to buy Canadian gold shares with new avidity...
Speaking not in his usual vein of pious optimism but as though he fully realized that bitter national rivalries gravely threaten the Conference's chances of success, Scot MacDonald cried: "The world is being driven on a state of things which may well bring it face to face . . . with a time in which life revolts against hardships and the gains of the past are swept away for forces of despair. . . . How dark are the depths of misery and unsettlement which have still to be gone through? No one who has surveyed the facts . . . can doubt for a moment . . . that...
...lectern the "shingle" which used to call gleemen to rehearsal 60 years ago. Scholarly Dr. Richard Cabot told of the Club's history. Dr. Koussevitzky made a praiseful speech. The Club sang Bach, Handel, Palestrina and an ambitious "Dirge for Two Veterans" written in sultry, modernistic vein by British Composer Gustav Hoist who taught last year...
...Washington, Mrs. Charles Henry Sabin and her ladies convened at the fourth annual convention of the W. O. N. P. R. Said she: "It would be glorious to continue in the vein of ecstasy, but it would be premature. . . . Repealists now face perhaps the hardest engagement of our great fight...