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...uniformed as Government Assault Guards had atrociously murdered Royalist Leader Jose Calvo Sotelo. onetime Finance Minister to the late Dictator Primo de Rivera. Bursting into his home, they kidnapped Senor Calvo Sotelo in an Assault Guard's truck, butchered him with clubs, knives, bullets and dumped his mangled carcass in the Madrid Municipal Cemetery...
...practically an empty chamber. . . . Quit talking now, boys, and behave. ... An impeachment in this case will be notice to the country that the time has come when a corporation seeking refuge in Federal Court is not a signal to crooked lawyers to flock in and feast on the carcass...
...manuscript of Childe Harold but expected nothing from that poem. On Aug. 1, his mother died. Next day one of his dearest friends was drowned. On Aug. 12, in the depths of despondency, he composed his "outrageous" will that carried its explicit provision for the "disposal of his carcass." He slept in an enormous bed decorated with Oriental splendor, kept four skulls by his writing desk, limped moodily about his dilapidated estate, plunged into dissipation with old school friends and pretty country girls. Six months later he made his first speech in the House of Lords, saw Childe Harold published...
Twelve times a traitor was spread-eagled on the ground. Twelve times an executioner with a plaited bull whip laid on until quivering flesh and muscles came off in strips and the bones of the black man's carcass gleamed white in Death. After the twelfth horror, Harar's market place resumed its normal function, jammed with horse bargainers who ignored a pack of mangy dogs sniffing hungrily at bloody spots on the cobbles which they had almost licked clean...
President Roosevelt last week took up the practical question of disposing of the carcass of the Blue Eagle. His program...