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...said Tobin, "you'd think this country dropped the Bill of Rights along the way some place . . . Unless a man is to be given a fair trial in a courtroom, unless his accusers are prepared to supply concrete evidence against him, he ought not to be made the butt of irresponsible slander, particularly from the privileged sanctuary of the Senate of the U.S. . . . If a [man] makes slanderous charges against his countrymen, he ought to be made either to prove them or bear the consequences...
German sledge hammers. Recaptured, he killed two guards with a rifle butt and escaped; recaptured again a few days later by a German patrol, he managed to persuade an enemy intelligence officer that he was an Irish revolutionary whose sole aim was to get back home and be a thorn in the side of the British. "Put me on a German ship," he begged, "and send me to Ireland ... [or] let me get to Spain, and there I'll find a ship...
Almost before the roof was on, it was a butt of criticism, a begetter of jokes and a breeder of legend. There was the story of the Western Union messenger who went in on a Monday morning, got caught in the red tape, and walked out on Friday a full colonel. There was the man who sat down at an empty desk to rest his feet and forthwith found himself with a phone, blotter, desk set and secretary. And then there was the acutely pregnant woman who accosted a guard and urgently demanded the way out. "Lady, you shouldn...
...maturity, long-legged (6 ft. 6 in.) Clarence E. McVey, 49, a carpenter of Graham, N.C. (pop. 5,000) could not forget the misery of his schooldays. He had grown so fast that he towered above all his classmates, was so gangling and awkward that he became the butt of their jokes. He swore that his five-year-old son David, already over four feet tall, would never have to suffer from the family curse of being...
...Mount Auburn Street sector once again at 9:30 p.m. last night, bringing a crowd of expectant students into the streets within minutes, Claverly was not the victim this time, however; the "blaze" was merely an awning fire in front of the Gold Coast Valeteria, started by a cigarette butt dropped from a window above. A similar accident occurred about a year...