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Judge Medina's character and habits give an effect of virtues and customs that are still called old-fashioned but are beginning to be recognized as worthy of revival. In a cynical age, cynicism has not found one chink in his character to take root in. He positively and quite instinctively believes that manifestations of evil and stupidity are passing phases, whereas God, the Republic as our forefathers dreamed of it, and the family are enduring. He finds no embarrassment in speaking of faith as the fruit of religion...
...Chink came up and put his M-t against my head and pulled the trigger. The bullet creased my skull. The muzzle blast nearly tore my eardrum out. I flopped over and pretended I was dead...
...sleeping bags. O.K., I'll tell you. You don't sleep at night up here. Get that? You'll have no sleeping bags. We got them, but we shipped them back. Those things are death traps. Zip yourself up in one and what happens? Some Chink slips in and slits your throat while you're trying to uncorset yourself...
...speedy end of the 31-day steel strike in the rest of the industry seemed inevitable. Other big steelmakers-Jones & Laughlin, Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube-were ready to follow Bethlehem's lead. The little steel companies had little chance once the chink appeared in the industry's front, were almost sure to sign with the Steelworkers and get their blast furnaces and open hearths roaring again. U.S. Steel, the kingpin, could hardly afford to hold out longer with Bethlehem gone from the struggle...
...theory has the same obvious chink as the theory of democracy. With very rare exceptions, Negroes are kept out. There are, however, some 800,000 Negroes practicing the rites, the vast majority of them in what are known as Prince Hall Grand Lodges. At least two Negro lodges, one in New Jersey, and one in Massachusetts, can lay claim to the legitimacy of their charters; the others, white Masons insist, are "clandestine" lodges, neither bona fide nor legitimate...