Word: hushed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...pugilist wanders around wanting to "take a sock" at someone. "Just one sock!" he pleads. And then there is an unfortunate suicide. Miss Moran is distressed at what her father's constituency may think. Mr. Kerr is distressed at what his family will think. Miss Dale sees her hush money slipping away from...
...side issue of the Mixed Claims Commission's labors last week concerned the late, great Lord Kitchener. Lawyer Bonynge, apropos nothing in particular, fished out his portfolio of German confessions one made by a certain Fred Hermann. This alleged "secret service agent" declared that he worked with other German hush-hush men in London early in the War, positively asserted that they learned of Earl Kitchener's projected visit to Russia on a British cruiser, radioed to Berlin information which enabled Germans to lay the mine which sunk...
...Janeiro officials did their best to hush this up too. A Federal censorship was established. Liberal-owned radio stations were closed. Chief of Police Oliveira Sobrinho called editors of opposition papers into his office, pointed out how unfortunate it would be if they should publish "false and misleading" accounts of the assassination or the unfortunate little affair of the ''independent state" in Parahyba...
...story would not hush. In Parahyba city enraged Liberals burned Republican homes, wrecked Republican stores. Parahyba's police were all inland, fighting Independent José Pereira; 1,000 Federal troops finally were called out to do police duty. In Parahyba gaol 187 convicts banged on the jail doors, begged that they might be released to slit the throats of the murderers of State President Pessoa...
...obstetrician, a pediatrist, a pathologist. The scientists inspected parents and progeny minutely. Mr. Watkins, a traffic-manager, scrutinized the boy whom the Bambergers' possessed, suddenly cried: "His hair is turning red. He's mine. My baby by my first wife has red hair." The "court" ordered him to hush, retired for the day to write out their individual decisions...