Word: warns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...police further warn motorists against leaving their cars parked without lights after darkness sets in, as the law in this regard will be strictly enforced...
Police officials have especially requested the CRIMSON to warn automobilists against leaving their cars in charge of boys who want to "mind your car," as many thefts occur through their agency...
...Circle. Parts of this picture, particularly the early parts, make enormously amusing screen material. One finds a tale of English nobility; a runaway couple coming back after 20 years to warn the daughter of the woman in the case not to run away with someone else's husband. It is a bid for happiness that life will defeat. Somerset Maugham wrote the original comedy. As is customary a new ending has been written, quite destroying the author's original intent. One is used to those things by now, and thankful for sequences of shrewd amusement in the earlier...
...Dalles, Ore., a thirsty tourist beheld a roadside spring over which the Highway Department had nailed a sign: THIS WATER IS CONTAMINATED. He hurried to the spring, began noisily to drink. A highway official, driving by, stopped to warn the drinking fellow. "Hi, Chief," said the guzzler, "what kind of mineral water is this here contaminated water? I never heard of it before, and this is the first time I seen it advertised." The official crawled away. Next day the old sign was replaced with another: THIS WATER IS ROTTEN. NOT FIT TO DRINK...
...seldom in the past 50 years that the people of this country have been confronted by the prospect of widespread industrial strife. But never, so far as I can judge, has the danger been so grave and so urgent as today. The wisest thinkers warn us that at this moment there is an almost unparalleled crisis in our national life...