Word: almost
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...should have put in an appearance in Federal court last week to face tax evasion charges. But he was nowhere to be found. Judge Lyle, speaking before the Chicago Safety Council, shouted: "We will send Capone to the chair if it is possible to do so!* Capone has become almost a mythical being, but he isn't a myth-he's a reptile. He deserves to die. He has no right to live." Gathering of corset-makers that night hailed Judge Lyle as "our next mayor." New Move. Four agencies were at work in the nation...
...appointment acceptable to almost everybody. Acceptable to the Laborites because he is a known champion of racial equality in India, because as Governor of Bombay and of Madras he earned the title of "most easy-going of Governors," because the first MacDonald Government gave him his viscountcy in 1924. He is acceptable to the Liberals because he is a Liberal, has been a party member both in the Commons and the Lords. He is acceptable to the Conservatives because as captain of Eton and Cambridge teams he is remembered as a cricketer who could bowl a fast "googly," an ability...
...asked which of the persons charged with an offense gives evidence in the coolest and most self-possessed manner. My answer, gentlemen, is that it is the person charged with murder. I recall but few persons so charged who have not given their testimony in a quiet, confident, almost dispassionate...
...swimming, 12. Rugby stars last year played in international matches when the interuniversity series were over. Rowing is so strenuous that college oarsmen take up practically no other sport. ". . . In idealistic England the spectator capacity at Twickenham, where many college rugby games are played, is more than 100,000, almost twice as large as the Harvard Stadium, and on more than a few occasions this structure has been filled for college games...
...Devil to Pay (Goldwyn). The millions of young U. S. women whose admiration has made Ronald Colman the most important male star in pictures should find this almost perfect, because it is very long. It is a flippant and debonair little piece, written to order by Frederick Lonsdale. It exists for its manner, its atmosphere of "nice" people, its flashes of wit-Colman buying a wirehaired fox terrier; arguing with his father, the irascible Lord Leeland (Father: "Now you're blaming me for bringing you into the world." Son: "I should be mortified for your sake...