Word: dig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ossietzky chirped, "I count myself as belonging to a party of sensible Europeans who regard the armaments race as insanity. If the German Government will permit, I will be only too pleased to go to Norway to receive the Prize and in my acceptance speech I will not dig up the past or say anything which might result in discord between Germany and Norway...
...McAvoy stepped in, announced he would seek grand jury investigation. Seventeen days after the Sabath Committee arrived in Philadelphia, a jury began its task. On Sept. 18, the first indictments were returned, on Sept. 28 a second batch. But they were not made public and the jury continued to dig...
...play. Catherine Hilton, the elder daughter, is last seen weeping from the bruises to her unreflected love, while Martin Hilton ends us definitely in love, but with no nupital climax. Even the new maid has a been whom she meets when she takes the bulldog out. When we dig below this surface disturbance of affairs and young loves we find Dodle Smith's deeper theme to be a contrast of love in its weaker and stronger manifestations...
Promptly the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune swung into action on the story, ordered its Washington Bureau to dig in the RA publicity files for confirmation. Next day the Herald Tribune frontpaged an article about three other Rothstein "drought pictures," in at least two of which the same steer's skull had apparently been used for dramatic effect. One print was labeled "Drought Victim," giving the distinct impression that the steer had just been laid low by the weather. Another was located in "the Bad Lands" which no farmer in his right mind would attempt to cultivate...
Pursuing a bland course through all this excitement, Detectives Harwood and Fenton eventually dig through the intrigues of a bogus reform group, pin the crimes on the least suspectable person in a final melee, which, for those cinemaddicts who want their mysteries solved with explicit completeness, is about the only unsatisfying thing in the picture...