Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back of their mine strike broken, the I. W. W.'s in Colorado resented it last fortnight when Louis N. Scherf, "hero" of the Columbine Mine "massacre" (TIME, Dec. 5), was posted in Walsenburg, Colo., with his squad of sharpshooting State Police, to watch over the town while the State Industrial Commission parleyed there on the strike. The State Police were in town at the request of Mayor John J. Pritchard, whom the Walsenburg city council declared a virtual dictator during the disturbances. Mayor Pritchard cried: "Bolshevism shall not prosper in Walsenburg as long as I am mayor...
...into two types. The active ones take a poetic view of the universe. They love to be made martyrs; ridicule makes them even more active, although they feel it personally. The passive type is sentimental, full of stagnant platitudes, lazy. Both types tend to become fleshy with years, should watch their digestive systems. Under this sign were born Calvin Coolidge, William Edgar Borah, Edward Albert, Prince of Wales, John D.. Rockefeller Sr., Jack Dempsey, the late Lord Northcliffe...
...bill is now before the State legislature to put an end to the arbitrary suppression of books by police sergeants; who have been called up it is said, by the Watch and Ward and asked to read and gasp "at page 256, the third paragraph, if they want to see real smut...
...remedied, he said that "If you insist on leaving tinder lying around you cannot tell who will strike the spark and set it off. It is our business to remove the tinder. This is the one question in which public opinion is important. We cannot sit by paralized and watch. There is a lack of government instrumentality; the Secretary of the Navy talks about armament, while Kellogg is ready to work internationally...
...Circus. A little ridiculous tramp, very hungry and without funds, was standing beside a pickpocket. The pickpocket grabbed from a rich man a watch, a wallet, saw that he had been observed, dropped the wallet & watch into the little tramp's pocket, slunk off. Pursued by the pickpocket the little tramp at last became aware of the fat purse that he was carrying. Pleased, he walked over to a hot-dog stand and bought himself a sausage; then he looked at his new watch. The proper owner of watch and wallet, approaching the little tramp, grabbed for his property...