Word: almost
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Recent news stories have illustrated the evils of third degree. On Nov. 26 Joseph Barbado, who had been sent to the death house at Sing Sing prison last December on a third degree confession of murder, was released almost at the eleventh hour. -En. D. A. C.'s Beasley...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Senator Lee Slater Overman of North Carolina (see p. 36). Almost from the graveside at Salisbury, Governor Gardner announced the appointment of Cameron ("Cam") Morrison, 61, of Charlotte to be the successor. When he was North Carolina's Governor (1921-24) red-faced, plumpish, tobacco-chewing (and spitting) Mr. Morrison received much credit, took more, for inaugurating the $150,000,000 program which gave his state the best hard-surfaced road system in the south. In the executive mansion at Raleigh his ten-year-old daughter by his first wife...
...these words Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, who had just delivered for Great Britain a speech congratulating himself and fellow delegates, allowed himself to slide a little down into his chair, assumed an almost sulky expression...
...Poverty is not for the artist in America. They pay us, indeed, only too well. He is a failure who cannot have a butler and a motor and a villa at Palm Beach, where he is often permitted to mingle almost in equality with the barons of banking. But he is oppressed ever by something worse than poverty, by a feeling that what he creates does not matter; that he is expected by his readers to be only a decorator or a clown, or that he is good-naturedly accepted as a scoffer whose bark is probably worse than...
...Percheron horse who has had a mild case of diphtheria for almost nine years wore a garland of flowers around his neck for a party last week. He was 14-year-old Doc Dobbin, oldest diphtheria antitoxin horse in the laboratories of E. R. Squibb & Sons at New Brunswick, N. J. Because Doc Dobbin has produced antitoxin enough to treat 30,000 children, Dr. John F. Anderson, Squibb vice president, gave a birthday party on the anniversary of Doc Dobbin's ninth year of service. One hundred school children from Highland Park, N. J. attended. The birthday table...