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...promote accuracy, the plan would make for harshness quite as often as for leniency. "The power of the judge to sentence to death has done more than anything else to prevent convictions for murder in the first degree," Governor Smith pointed out. If properly constituted, a sentencing board could attach rehabilitation measures to the penalties it assigned. Its edicts would range from ordering minor surgical operations, and rest cures, to the insane asylum and the electric chair...
...suddenly out of the port holes. Captain van Schaick watched his passengers who were discovering to their horror that all the life pre servers were full of dust, not cork, that all the life boats sank as soon as they were launched. He watched a few deckhands trying to attach the hose which was so old and frail that it broke in their hands. There was a whining report as the port rail of the after deck collapsed and then the screams of children and women who soon blackened in the heat. A little boy climbed the flag pole, trying...
Cleverer was a Japanese attaché who noted that the ages of the chief delegates closely approximated a 3-5-5 ratio. Mr. Gibson is 43; Mr. Bridgeman 62; and Viscount Saito 69. Japanese thought that a good ratio, a good joke...
...stump in the rear of the temporary White House is the temporary home of Rebecca, pet presidential raccoon. One day last week Rebecca vanished. Attachés called "Rebecca! Rebecca!" Located, eventually, in a neighboring yard, Rebecca hopped from tree to tree while pursuers rushed from trunk to trunk. After two hours Rebecca, tired, permitted herself to be captured...
There is admittedly not the slightest reason why a man should not spend seven days and nights on the pinnacle of a thirty-nine foot flag-pole if he so desires. But for even the minimum amount of dignity to attach itself to such a feat, the would-be Stygirite must produce a cogent reason for his conduct. The motive of the Syrian saint who lived atop a pillar was one which has commanded the respect of posterity; the reason for the lofty position of his imitator who is fasting atop a New-ark flagpole is also perfectly credible...