Word: waylaid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Susannah of the Mounties (Twentieth Century-Fox) is, of course, that old trouper Shirley Temple, age 10, this time a waif from a waylaid wagon train. Her role in the North-West Mounted Police is: 1) making Orderly J. Farrell MacDonald say his prayers and 2) teaching six-foot-two Randolph Scott to waltz, knees akimbo, to the tune of Learning McFadden to Waltz...
...cross the French border into Catalonia at one time required passage through three independent sets of custom officers-Madrid's, Catalonia's, the Anarchists'. Supplies earmarked for transit through Catalonia for the Central Government were often waylaid...
...were disturbing the Rightist side of Spain's civil war. The reports were re-newed and amplified last week. Italian and Spanish officers were said to have wrangled and fought each other in many cities. People who reached the French border from Burgos said 45 Italians had been waylaid and hanged outside that city, that the 11th Field Artillery there had mutinied. Arrests were put at from...
While sentencing a forger in Klamath Falls, Ore., Circuit Judge Edward B. Ashurst (brother of Arizona's polysyllabic Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst) digressed to criticize a bill for overtime submitted by Court Clerk Walter Hannon, called it disgraceful, intimated that it was not legal. Hopping mad, Clerk Hannon waylaid the judge on the courthouse steps a few hours later, beat the daylights out of him. Battered and bruised, Judge Ashurst summoned the Grand Jury into immediate session...
...were entrenched in Winfield House surrounded by doctors, lawyers, bankers and armed guards. In Paris, Father Franklyn Laws Hutton, ever anxious about the happiness of his "dear little girl," talked things over with her second titled husband. It was after such a conference last week that Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, waylaid by reporters in the Ritz Hotel, hissed through his teeth: "I detest reporters...