Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never did Canot resort to the measure of a fellow 'legger. The law read that a slaver suspect could not be confiscated unless at the time of capture there were actually slaves aboard. That a slaver could be smelled "five miles down the wind" made camouflage the more difficult, and upon such a reeking suspect four war-vessels one day descended. Fortunately for the suspect captain, the law was becalmed long enough for him to drop his 600 slaves overboard, chained to the anchor...
Evangelist William Ashley Sunday last week preached a "shortstop" sermon against Governor Smith's presidential candidacy. Theme: "Crooks, cork screwers, bootleggers, whisky politicians; they shall not pass-even to the White House." Place: Ocean Grove, N. J., Methodist seashore resort...
...York, the opening of another horse-racing season at Saratoga Springs brought forth free-spending crowds, who entered the resort's perennial gambling rooms, which then were viewed with loud alarm by political opponents of Governor Smith, who thereupon equally loudly demanded that the Gambling be stopped, together with the Vice that was reported in conjunction. A Manhattan newspaper (Evening Post) soon reported more Gambling and Vice in another New York county (Suffolk). It described a discreet, highly expensive casino on an island near Montauk Point, L.I. The games were said to be "fourth largest in the U.S.," smaller...
...introduce a measure [in the Dominion Parliament] to abolish kingship; but the English among us would protest and probably many Dutch would support them. The English might even take up weapons and rebel [against the Dominion Government]. . . . I do not think that England and the other Dominions would resort to force...
...Enforcement Provided. Secretary Kellogg explained: "As I have already pointed out, there can be no question as a matter of law that violation of a multilateral anti-war treaty through resort to war by one party thereto would automatically release the other parties from their obligations to the treaty-breaking State...