Word: monstering
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...directly or indirectly concerned with this monster transaction (gross profits, if the barrels were really sold, of $8,333,333), not one except Sinclair was in the country during the trial. Therefore, they did not testify. Therefore, Messrs. Roberts and Pomerene could definitely prove nothing. (Sinclair refused to testify because he is already under a District of Columbia indictment...
...absolute ring of deathlike silence significant?" asked Prosecuting' Attorney Roberts in his summing-up. "The defense is silent as the tomb," said Prosecuting Attorney Pomerene. To which, venerable Defending Attorney Lacey replied by demanding that all evidence concerning the monster deal be stricken from the records because there was nothing to implicate Sinclair with the bond transfer. And Defending Attorney Littleton added later the sneer that, some months ago, the Government "got bond hungry and went bond hunting all over...
That evening, the League for the Protection of the Rights of Man gave a monster "banquet of welcome" to Joseph Caillaux,* whose financial genius has, in years past, won nation-wide repute. Two thousand radical and socialist persons were present. Premier Herriot did not attend but, said M. Paul Painlevé, Président de la Chambre, "he is here in spirit." Presently there entered Maitre Moro-Giafferi, the famed French lawyer who defended Caillaux before the Senate when he was condemned to exile for endangering the alliances of France in 1919. He whooped a cry of delight at seeing...
...second son of King George, York reserved his fire. Nearer and nearer the enraged animal came, its head lowered, its two white horns gleaming their deadly significance. Nearer and nearer, 50 yards, 40 yards, 30 yards-crack! a bullet sped from York's rifle ... a perissodactyl monster lay dead...
...gone. It may be weeks or months before Mussolini disappears, but the romantic light of the dawn of Fascism has already vanished under the cruel glare of a full day of oppression, and it seems that the Italian people but awaits the time and occasion to dissolve this political monster under the destroying acid of its anger...