Word: minds
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...They make believe they slap me and finally Stiglin took me out in the hall. He said, 'You fool, why didn't you admit it right away?' I said, 'Well, I don't want to get in bad.' He said, 'Well, never mind. We have got a clear case. Just go ahead and make the admission in front of the girl.' " Another hold-up game practiced by members of the New York Police Department: arresting men on charges of "annoying women in the subway"; hustling them to jail; introducing them to certain...
...charges Judge Lyle apparently had in mind were old ones: the murder of Big Jim Colosimo (1920), who brought young Capone and Johnny Torrio to Chicago as his bodyguards; the killing of Joseph Howard, petty hijacker...
...Nuncio was chess, at which both are adept. The bold Pole favored vigorous attack. The astute Italian shifted his play between defense and attack. The Marshal won sufficiently often not to resent his opponent's superior intellect. Pope Pius XI has all the distinctive attributes of mind-scholarliness, intellectuality, intelligence. The doctorates he holds in philosophy, theology and canon law he earned. When he attended the Lombard College at Rome, he and his comrade Alessandro Lualdi (later cardinal) were rated the most brilliant. Because he reorganized the Ambrosian Library in Milan and made it really useful to scholars...
...Houston, Tex., T. C. Grenshaw, 70, divorced by his wife after 27 years of marriage, brought suit against her new husband, Fred M. Terry, for 1) poisoning his former wife's mind ($25,000); 2) alienating her affections ($25,000); 3) corrupting her morals ($25,000); 4) destroying her innocence ($25,000); 5) causing her to break her marriage contract ($25,000); 6) mortification ($25,000); 7) loss of her society ($25,000); 8) loss of right to censure her actions...
...perilous seas: "I have taken a footman's modest part in countless hunts, and have also hunted on a bicycle. When one knows, as I did, every inch of the wide countryside, every path, stile, gate and gap, as well as the workings of a fox's mind, one can hunt, even on foot, with great success, on cold-hunting days. . . . After all, poetry is not a written record of what one does. Were it so, Shakespeare would have been hanged for murder and Sophocles for incest. Poetry is the spiritual enjoyment of what one understands. I wrote...