Word: spedding
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...guess that the British Director of Public Prosecutions, although he claimed to be trying to scotch articles and films prejudicial to the trial of the accused, may have acted because "the offending stories were of a sort calculated to win public sympathy for McMahon" from whose hand the pistol sped...
Boiling mad but keeping his feelings strictly to himself. High Commissioner Sean Lester, a British subject from Dublin, sped directly to Geneva last week. Also to Geneva went the young President of the Senate of Danzig, a heel-clicking Nazi, Arthur Karl Greiser. He stopped at Berlin, as usual, for instructions. Last January his orders were to go to Geneva and behave as 'umbly as Uriah Heep. Last week they were to lie low in Geneva until he was sure the League of Nations was down, then kick with all his might "in the name of all the German...
...photographer pushed his camera to the ambulance window for a last snapshot. Henry Morgan's face paled with fury, his hands clenched, but he made no move. A Morgan estate guard hit the photographerin the jaw. The ambulance sped away to the rigid privacy of the Morgan estate...
...this someone had the happy thought of inducing the Montreux Conference to adjourn until next month, after the League meetings, and the 7th Earl Stanhope sped from Montreux to Geneva to tell "Tony" Eden how things stood. Dictator Benito Mussolini long since refused to send an Italian delegate to Montreux "until after sanctions are lifted." Last week the Italian Press, pointing out that Italian commercial tonnage is the heaviest through the straits, declared that obviously no solution at Montreux not approved by Italy could stand. At this the Turkish Press of Dictator Kamâl Atatürk exclaimed what...
...alive. Though he failed to produce the missing Negro, Sheriff Howard Curlin of Crittenden County nodded corroboration. Some even suspected that Miss Blagden's beating might be a hoax. To prove her story she pulled up her skirts for Memphis photographers. To Arkansas. Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings sped Sam E. Whitaker to "investigate" the sharecroppers' plight, although Mr. Whitaker had just finished a similar investigation...