Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was no warrant or written complaint against Frederick Jockell, attorney of Mount Vernon, N. Y. Yet he was arrested in Manhattan on a charge of grand larceny, clapped into jail with "a howling Chinaman." So, claiming that he had been humiliated, Mr. Jockell sued Detective John J. Quinn (who arrested him) for $25,000. Last week a jury upheld Mr. Jockell to the extent of $1,000. Presiding Justice Joseph Morschauser of the New York Supreme Court added: "The verdict should have been ten times as much, so as to teach New York police officers to be more careful...
When the jury of eleven married men and one widower filed into the Chicago Criminal Court last week, Dr. Amante Rongetti, proprietor of a Chicago hospital, the prisoner, stood up. The jury foreman silently passed the written verdict to the court clerk, who read aloud in courtly monotone...
Coincident with the reports of the success enjoyed by this enterprising faith, were reports of a book which has been written about its founder, Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy. The name of the book is Memoirs of Mary Baker Eddy; its author was Adam H. Dickey, who during the closing years of Mrs. Eddy's life, had been her private secretary...
...first paragraph is written in cablese. The second is a skeletonized cablegram. The third is the way such a story might finally appear in U. S. newspapers. Since Jan. 1, the Western Union Telegraph Co. has been prohibiting the use of cablese by press associations and newspapers. This cablese, with its word contractions, its elaborate prefixes and suffixes, had nearly become a code; hence, the ban. The Western Union Telegraph Co. does not object to skeletonized cables, so long as they confine themselves to dictionary words...
...Significance. Such a career holds temptations for psychological biographers and makers of historical fiction. Allan Nevins, to be sure, has been tempted, thrilled by Frémont. Otherwise he would not have written 698 pages about him. But Mr. Nevins is a respecter of history, a scholar. His Frémont, entrancing, exacting, will not be a dust-catcher on top library shelves. It has put more life in the prairies than any book since Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln. It has harnessed the antics of land-grabbing, gold-greedy pioneers and hot-tempered politicians. It has gusto...