Word: webbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jail, refer during the trial to Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti as "those bastards"'? Did he say "a bunch of parlor radicals are trying to get those guys off," but that he "would show them and would get those guys hanged"? Did he add that "no Bolsheviki could intimidate Web Thayer," that he "would also like to hang a few dozen radicals...
...before the carnage at Fredericksburg; a sardonic Southern gallant shooting between his horse's ears on a midnight pursuit; the preparations for a lonely sabre duel; a bright-haired Richmond belle riding through magnolia-fragrant lanes and other pleasant spots. But the story itself is less satisfactory. The web of realism hangs loosely upon its romantic skeleton. Two cousins Hale, Canadians, are turned from Federal mercenaries into Confederate impostors, and from comrades into enemies, by the circumstances of being wounded and imprisoned, and of seeing Camilla Dame (heroine) walking in her pretty garden. Kirk Hale, the cousin to whom...
...still the international cob-web's trembling, Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann of Germany assumed the role of peaceable mediator, intimated that Germany would proffer her good offices between Russia and Rumania in the Bessarabia dispute. He vigorously scouted the "British Bloc" story as follows: "The British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain has never intimated to me a desire to build up a bloc of European nations against Russia, but has, on the contrary, categorically denied to me any such intentions...
...optometrist, a grinder of fine lenses. At his leisure he smoked a pipe of tobacco. His sport was spider-fighting. Hunting out two aggressive spiders, he would embattle them and watch with glee through a magnifying glass. Or, feeling more domestic, he would catch flies, throw them into the web of his first-string fighter and relish the savage banquet. Drawing was his polite accomplishment, an amateur skilled in cartooning his friends' oddities with a pencil. Struck by the refractory habits of light, he composed "A Treatise on the Rainbow...
...Western Pacific holdings, Mr. James stated that the investment was "purely personal," meaning that he was not representing his other companies, but only himself. Nevertheless, a still further consolidation of western transportation was not invisible, if the Interstate Commerce Commission should approve Mr. James's present plan. A web connecting west and midwest by north and south is already dominated, and might well be directed, by this financier who, though never a railroad man, can sit in his office and evolve plans "to build up the territory" as readily as he would take a trick at the helm...