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...look the type that would bump off her husband, does she?" asked one of the wives leaving court to cook supper, as Carpenter Noack carried his daughter from the courtroom. "I don't know about that," answered another. "She looks screwy...
...lights went out; eggs and tomatoes flew. The dark hall rang with women's screams, the thud of chairs wielded in combat, and the scuffle and bump of poetry lovers colliding in midflight. As if to prove that there was more at issue than the quality of the verse, there were cries of "Down with Franco!" Doña Alicia, opening her mouth to call for police, caught a slap squarely in the face...
...varsity hockey team will bump into a tough customer at the Arena tonight when it seeks to return to winning ways against the ever formidable skaters from BC. Game time is 9 p.m.; Tufts and MIT open the program...
When he is asked to describe his Government career, 55-year-old Assistant ECAdministrator Wayne Chatfield Taylor gives a rueful one-word reply: "Bruises." A New Deal stalwart for 17 years, ex-Investment Banker Taylor picked up many a bump as Assistant AAAdministrator, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Under Secretary of Commerce (he directed the famous wartime eviction of Sewell Avery from Montgomery Ward), and president of the Export-Import Bank...
...certain of the judge's remarks did not fit the Court's own definition of fairness, were prejudicial to the case. Gladstein wanted him to declare a mistrial. "I won't do it," said the judge. "If you expect me to sit here like a bump on a log you're making a big mistake...