Word: proving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Manager Sells Floto Circus Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Mix was last week indicted by the Federal grand jury in Los Angeles, charged with trying to defraud the U. S. of $175,967.65 in income taxes. He, performing in Minneapolis, said time would prove him innocent.-ED. Brent & Canterbury Sirs: Seeing in TIME that the Archbishop of Canterbury was yachting on the luxurious Corsair with Multi-Millionaire Morgan, reminded me of the late Bishop Brent, of New York State, and a different scene. I was with Major General Henry C. Corbin on the Benguet road going from Baguio to Manila...
...fragile blue-blooded fiance were snowbound for several weeks in a one-room cabin on the Siberian steppes. But in the theatre only one thing would be likely to happen-after both men had been seized with an overwhelming urge for the maiden, one of them would prove a cad, the other would enjoy the cabin as a quasi-nuptial chamber. All this is true of The First Law. Since it was written by Dmitry Schlegov, a Soviet Russian, the British fiance is the cad. He is removed by the Bolshevik in a tussle over a hatchet. The problem...
Thus 28 rueful French deputies discovered that Poldavia and the Poldavians, their Foreign Minister and embossed stationery, were just another hoax of Royalist Daudet and his followers, the Camelots du Roi ("hawkers of the King"). Their object again was to prove that all Republicans are either imbeciles or ignoramuses...
...course, Mr. Broun himself. Managing a column which is about equally divided between the controversial and the autobiographical, Mr. Broun, in one of his revelatory moments, mentioned the nature and extent of his corporate holdings. Purposely naive (as when he remarked that should his General Realty stock prove him to be his own landlord he would certainly do something about a defective window) Mr. Broun's commitments indicated no lamb, no innocent...
...Thomas J. Mooncy and Warren K. Billings, trade-unionists, were accused and convicted of murder after a bomb which killed ten, had been thrown into a San Francisco "Preparedness" parade. Later evidence seemed to prove them not guilty. Their judge and nine of their ten living jurors have since declared them guiltless. California has not reconsidered their case, which is now before Governor C. C. Young for a pardon. To propagandize in their favor a national "Mooney-Billings Committee" has been formed. Among its members are: Harry Elmer Barnes, Clarence Darrow, John Dewey, Glenn Frank, Alexander Meiklejohn, H. L. Mencken...