Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Haskel, killer for hire, was a mighty surprised man. He had been paid to ride up to South Pass, Wyo. and plug a troublesome cowboy named Lincoln Bradway. But when the two men drew and fired, Gunman Haskel "uttered a loud yell of pain and dismay . . . Clapping his hands to his big paunch he sank to his knees, swayed and slowly collapsed a few yards from the sidewalk...
Novel No. 51 on Author Grey's production line, The Maverick Queen, follows traditionally slim, traditionally grey-eyed Nebraska Cowboy Line Bradway on an errand of justice to South Pass, tangles him up with the lady leader ("the Maverick Queen") of a gang of cattle rustlers whom he suspects of his pard's murder. Ultimately it thrusts him into the arms of the queen's innocent niece ("blue eyes set wide apart, dark with excitement, red lips, sweet and tragic, a small bare head covered with golden curls"). Before Line and bride can turn "to face...
...them too. Before he is through, the priest has waded through a world of sordid crime and violent death. But Father Cawder has learned the force of the words he had once mechanically spoken to Diamond: "It's no part of a priest's business to pass on people like a judge. A priest has no means of doing so even if he wished; only God sees people as they...
Cowley told the CRIMSON last night that the meeting had been scheduled because of the "feeling of several people that Matthiessen's death should not be allowed to pass by just with the comments of the Boston papers...
...House passed (216 to 11) a two-year, stand-by extension of the draft. If the Senate agrees, draft-age men will be registered and classified. In an emergency, Congress would then merely pass a joint resolution to begin inductions...