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...hand. It did not move. The Negro did. A sheriff who discerned something more than fantasy behind his terrified eyes and whirling words, followed the boy back to the river and found, under the hand, the body of a onetime bartender for Mr. Birger, wrapped in a horse-blanket and riddled with bullets. The sheriff was bothered, because at dawn that same morning he had been called out to have a look at one William B. McQuay who lay in his automobile three miles north of Herrin on the road to Johnson City. Sixteen steel-jacketed machine-gun bullets...
...intensely admired technique was this: with his stentorian auctioneer's voice he would bellow, snort and puff and a draw a crowd; well observed, he then swooped a blanket over his head, writhed, snored, groaned, popped forth drenched with sweat (even "on the coldest day") and cried out fresh news from Allah. Frantic scribes would hasten to scrawl his syllables, whether intelligible or not, upon palm leaves, leather, stones, bones, or the breasts of bystanders. Each utterance was a sura (verse); the collection became the Koran, a marvelous conglomeration of divine edicts, personal justifications of and promises to Mohammed...
...joker" inserted by the Senate to give the U. S. absolute power to prohibit the World Court from handing down "an advisory opinion touching any dispute or question in which the U. S. has or claims an interest."† The resentment of the World Court Adherent Powers at this blanket reservation was pungently expressed last week by the Canadian representative Sir George Eulas Foster, onetime (1888) Canadian Minister of Finance: "The reservation, whereby the U. S. demands 'the right of consent,' is virtually a command to the Court-'Thou shalt not do thus and so. . . .' This...
...ever penned such a gambling scene as the one here, where young Jim, the camp "gaycat," "fuzz-face" or "gazoony" is admitted to the Thanksgiving Day poker game and after long lucky hours lays four aces on the horse-blanket to beat Bully Black Hawk out of a monster pot. They gave the lad his moniker (nickname) after that and he skinned (drove) mules thereafter instead of walloping dishes...
Still deeper in wild Chiapas, the Mexican savants found a still older city, Junchavin, near the Guatemalan border. Signs indicated that the prehistoric inhabitants had covered their spacious settlement with a blanket of masonry before evacuating. The inscriptions on monoliths and on a "million-year-old" stone were reported of unknown designs, surely pre-Mayan...