Word: algerisms
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...Alger Hiss faced his enemy. Last week he sat under the water-drip torture of cross-examination by Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Murphy, the man who is trying to convict him of perjury. If the Government's accusations were true, Hiss had spent 15 years leading an almost incredible double life, and Murphy was set on proving it. Hiss's face showed the strain of the 28 days of the first trial, of the 23 days so far of this one. The strain was also apparent in the frozen, drawn face of Priscilla, his wife, who sat behind...
There were no dramatics, only a kind of slow suspense. For most of the participants, and to some extent for Alger Hiss himself, the nation's most celebrated trial had become a kind of mechanical, well-mannered nightmare...
...YORK, Jan 5. Docter Alexander 11 Murry '15, lecturer on Clinical Psychology, will testify as a defense witness in the perjury trial of Alger Hiss LL.B. '29, when Claude B. Cross, LL.B. '20, Hiss attorney, calls the faculty member to the stand tomorrow in U.S. District Court...
...third bit of Chambers' story-that he and his wife had spent New Year's Eve 1936 with the Hisses-was contradicted by Alger Hiss himself. He testified that his wife had been in Chappaqua, N.Y. and not in Washington, and produced a letter he had sent her postmarked Dec. 30 to prove it. It read...
...Horatio Alger, his rags-to-riches message in popular bloom, had died the year before. Stephen Crane, who had seen more of the rags than the riches and had written Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, was about to die at 28. Pessimism and doubt were not hard to find on Jan 1, 1900, but the world, and especially the U.S., sided with Alger. It looked forward to the 20th Century with a degree of confidence unequaled by any previous age and unregained since. Paced fast or slow, progress was sure, limitless, irreversible. Virtue walked with progress; they fed each...