Word: well-kept
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...begun a great "treason trial," whose size and scope was an embarrassment to the Nazis themselves. Out of the yard of Berlin's grim Moabit Prison rolled a green police van one morning last week. Through Berlin's streets it rumbled, finally pulled up in the well-kept grounds of the dread People's Court building on the Bellevuestrasse. Three prisoners-Ernst Niekisch, Dr. William Drexler and Karl Troegler-emerged from the van and were hustled into the great hall of the Court. On the bench sat their judges-three red-robed justices, a police general...
...Unity Farm last fortnight, with Mrs. West as president, was held Unity's Annual Conference. Already under way on the handsome, well-kept farm was a summer Unity Training School, whose folder reminded students that "Tuition is paid on the love-offering basis," and bore a picture of Jesus Christ with the caption "Headmaster...
...undistinguished process-server was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor last week. That was the last straw for the distinguished-looking old gentleman who cuts off French heads with his efficient and well-kept pair of guillotines-a light, folding model for the provinces and for Paris a heavy, ancestral antique. This official, famed Anatole ("Papa") Deibler, has been waiting impatiently for his Legion of Honor ribbon. After receiving it he will retire and leave to his son-in-law the family business of executing criminals. Last week enraged "Papa" Deibler let it be known that...
...neither crops to make nor jobs to work at. Food allowances on which from 10? to 20? on the dollar extra is charged are held to about $2 a week for a share cropper's family by the plantation owner. Houses are worse than poultry houses on well-kept farms. A family showed me relief which it was told must last for 30 days- there were seven in that family. Its stores consisted of 8 cans of evaporated milk, 5 cans of processed beef, one 24-lb. bag of flour, one 24-lb. bag of meal and a paper...
...poverty of certain rural sections of the Carolinas stands in strange contrast to the un-surpassing beauty of certain of the well-kept plantations, gardens and homes...