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Startled by the celerity of Alabama justice, the International Labor Defense protested "the legal lynching of Negro workers on framed charges." Liberal and racial organizations began to bestir themselves for an appeal in behalf of the condemned. Although ready with praise for the State's having made "every honest effort to give the accused a fair trial," these groups claimed: 1) that a fair trial was impossible under the circumstances; 2) that physicians were unable to find conclusive evidence of rape on the girls; 3) that the girls were bad, anyway...
...credit of [India's] princes that the sluggish millions have been forced to bestir themselves and bring to light the fabulous natural resources for which the land has ever been famed...
...hurdy-gurdy hobby: and when the Democratic campaign deficit is considered, a solution presents itself. New York is notable for huge parades at the slightest provocation. Lead by bands of leaders grinding out from hurdy-gurdies the strains of "Sidewalks of New York", a Democratic parade might certainly bestir sympathetic bystanders to sacrifice their pocket change. Such a method might overcome any financial difficulties of the party and insure Democratic forcasts for 1932, which are now overdue...
...these, a subaltern, loved Lois- genuinely; but not pugnaciously enough to defy her aunt's disapproval: he had neither riches nor pride of family, his relatives lived vaguely in Surrey, and that, thought Aunt Myra, would never do. Lois, for her part, loved, but did not bestir herself to contradict her aunt. When a few days later the subaltern, on patrol, was shot from ambush, Aunt Myra thought it sad, and continued her teas. Lois pondered, to no avail, and went abroad to get on with her French. But that was their last bland September; by the next, revolutionary...
Placid Leader Baldwin did not thereafter greatly bestir himself, last week, except to take delivery of a mammoth "Peace Letter" signed by "128,770 British citizens all above 16 years of age" who stated ominously that they "will hereafter refuse to render war service to any government...