Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inquisitor Seabury, following up testimony he had previously wrung from the Mayor's associates, conducted his inquiry along four major channels...
Members of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee last week clustered about 74-year-old Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, wrung his hand, gave him congratulatory back pats. They had just approved his latest version of a bill to reform the national banking system on a tremendous scale...
Clues. At the end of the first six days, heart-wrung Anne Morrow Lindbergh, who expects another child, and her harassed husband had no more evidence as to who had snatched their child than was established in the preliminary examination of their estate...
Perhaps because he is an unpolished writer, Engineer Walter Arnold Rukeyser is bluntly convincing. He wrings the reader's heart by telling how the hearts of himself and wife were wrung when the merciless Gay-pay-oo (Soviet Secret Service) would seize and carry off, perhaps to Death, some Russian engineer with whom Mr. Rukeyser had worked. Relating how he had to point out the honest mistakes of one such Russian engineer to a Soviet technical authority, Engineer Rukeyser writes: "I felt as though I had killed...
Last week Albert Cabell ("Bert") Ritchie, the handsome, smiling, divorced Governor of Maryland, went to New York City. An elevator shot him up to the 32nd floor of the Empire State Building. There Alfred Emanuel Smith and John Jacob Raskob wrung his hand in warm welcome. For more than an hour these three potent Democrats talked campaign politics. Later Governor Ritchie addressed the Academy of Political Science, said nothing important well. Cordial to all newshawks, he gave frequent interviews depicting the certainty of Democratic success in 1932. At a reunion dinner of the War Industries Board, which he had served...