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...called hogs. . . ." Senator Borah warned against "the day of reckoning" when the Farm Board comes to sell its wheat at a loss. Chairmen Legge replied: "Don't ask me to discuss cyclones. You know how scientists have defined a cyclone as superheated hot air that always runs amuck...
Next morning Clifton and Einar sat in a Copenhagen dock. The two young frokener screamed charges that they had been treated worse than roughly. Einar, when he saw how things were shaping, "ran amuck in the courtroom" according to Copenhagen newspapers, and "overpowered by three policemen, was locked up in a cell, howling for drugs...
Clifton, who had sat quietly through the running-amuck, said in his deferential chauffeur's voice that of course he had not molested either of the frokener, but he confessed in barely audible tones, "I did take out Mr. Booth's car ... for the evening . . . without permission...
...news bureau has sent me a clipping from your paper of April 21 containing a libellous statement about me; saying, "He (I) attracted no little attention by running amuck and shooting his butler." That is an unqualified lie. The man was an English mechanic who I discovered, was a most brutal wife beater. A friend told me of it and I told the friend to have his wife tell Gillard that the next time he beat her, to come over here ["The Merry Mills," Cobham Va.] with her flock of children and I'd put her and them...
Sheriff Bob went back to painting. Followed a second marriage to the tempestuous primadonna Lina Cavalieri. Another brother, John Armstrong Chanler, had attracted no little attention by running amuck, shooting his butler, and effecting a spectacular escape from the Bloomingdale Hospital for the Insane (Manhattan). He fled to Virginia, was judged legally sane, changed his name to "Chaloner" and set a brass plate in his dining room floor "To the Memory of a Faithful Servitor." No sooner did the news of Artist Bob's marriage to the spectacular Cavalieri reach Virginia than Brother John sent his most famous telegram...