Word: wiredness
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Astonished by the smitch of dust from their own files, Prosecutor Courtney's lawyers wired Hollywood police to snatch Convict Bioff from his Hollywoodland palace on Santa Monica Boulevard, head him back toward prison. Cried Willie Bioff, now rich and 46: "I made mistakes as a boy. I had...
Realism. No one has given Wilhelmina more trouble in recent years than Adolf Hitler, and from no ruler has the Führer taken, at times, such straight talk. She protested in a personal letter to Herr Hitler the death sentence passed on Marinus van Der Lubbe, the Dutch Communist...
A columnist on the Manchester Guardian asked old George Bernard Shaw if he had sent Hitler a congratulatory telegram on his escape from the Bürgerbraü bombing. Shaw said he had not, but that Chamberlain should have wired Hitler: "Greatly as the British nation regrets your escape, decency...
Frail, feminist Mrs. Adelaide Johnson, a sculptor for more than 60 of her 80-odd years, long knew and admired the late great Suffragette Susan B. Anthony. Her statue of Miss Anthony, rising (with fellow Feminists Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton) from a sea of Carrara marble, rests in...
> Wired the Mehtar of Chitral (a pee-wee State on the North-West Frontier):