Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...face, dead. The killer leaped over the body, ran through the stupefied crowd, flung away the gun and a black silk left-hand glove (anti-finger print), disappeared in the swarm of Chicago's midtown traffic. A warm corpse lying in a bloody welter is not an unusual sight for Chicago. This was Chicago's eleventh murder in ten days, its 43rd thug-killing of the year. But the newsgatherers, camera men and police who soon congregated in the pedestrian tunnel were profoundly impressed, agitated, angry. For this corpse had not been a gangster, or a policeman...
...Some day, of course, I shall die. Out on the stage I would sing the last note of a song. I wouldn't want to die before the audience and create a disturbance. But after that last note I would go off the stage and then, out of sight, I would die. That would be the most beautiful...
...since 1920 when Alexander Mitchell Palmer was attorney general of the U. S. has the Federal Government hunted Reds. Because overt radical agitation and the economic condition of the nation follow the same cycle. Communist leaders in the last fat prosperous decade have starved politically out of public sight. The last lean year has brought them suddenly to the surface, to gorge themselves on hard times, to feast on unemployment, to stage Red demonstrations throughout the land. Alarmed by the spectre of radical resurgence, the House of Representatives last week voted (210-to-18) to start a Red hunt...
...Gretna. La., Cadet Cagle, aged 23, had married Marion Munford Haile. He returned to West Point to sign certificates that he had not violated the Academy's strict rule against cadets marrying. Mrs. Cagle taught school in Louisiana as Miss Haile, kept out of sight, never saw her husband drill or play football...
Capone's lawyers went before circuit Judge Uly O. Thompson, obtained a writ that released their client because no formal charges had been filed against him. City Manager Frank H. Wharton announced that Miami would adopt Chicago's policy and arrest Capone on sight until he left town. Federal District Judge Halsted L. Ritter who had granted Capone an injunction against warrantless arrest by Florida sheriffs refused to broaden his order to include the Miami police. But Capone was temporarily free to fight the city's padlock petition against his Palm Island home...