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...declared that the Government of Malta was "in a state of rebellion against the word of the Pope" and announced that "Catholics, therefore, without committing a grave sin, may not vote for the party of Lord Strickland." As a result of this pastoral the Governor, General Sir John Du Cane, postponed the election indefinitely...
...complaining as is the custom of newspapermen: "Some business. Work for the Telegram, there's a paper. When you're fifty-five and you've been there twenty years, they give you a week's pay. Bye-bye, little boy, another guy hobbling on a cane in the State institution. Or work for the Sun, that gentle old Y. M. C. A. Smoke a cigaret in the city room and you'll be sleeping on a park bench the same night. Or work for the Post, with the Great White Father of the Curtis publications...
...second stroke fell. How damnably timed they were! The time taken in handing the cane over to the next monitor and his run across the library was just enough for Colin to realize the sickness of the pain of the first blow without any of its sting wearing off. . . . Two more! How they could lay in! And only half. He began to feel sick...
Witnesses grew weary traipsing back and forth between the two committees all week long. Their testimony grew jumbled in the confusion of double hearings. But above the welter of words and figures, the loud police court methods of interrogation used by unfriendly Senators, the first poundings and cane thumpings of vehement witnesses, emerged the definite out lines of a real and important division of opinion on naval policy...
...parents. A delicate child, he was set upon by a cow when he was three; this accident, says Biographer Sitwell, may have resulted in his subsequent deformity. As a grown man he could not dress himself, had to wear a stiff corset when he walked, supported himself with a cane. Precocious rhymester, ambitious poet, he intended to be not only great but "correct." At 25 he was one of the foremost literary men in England, received £5,000 or £6,000 for his translation of the Iliad. He was in love at least once, with Martha Blount...