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Pitch black Eliot House teetered on the brink of anarchy for ten minutes last night as Mastodons, piqued when the electricity went off for the second time in two study hours, hurled fire cracker after firecracker into the spacious courtyard...
...stretched thongs in an open courtyard in Lahore, half naked, her head "wrung steeply back, her legs rigid in a convulsion as of birth, a woman lay dead...
Fabiani certainly enjoys the mayoralty, now that the people have given it to him. To approach the office of this proletarian dignitary, you pass through a courtyard with Verrocchio's famous bronze put to, then up the stairs to the great hall with its Vasari frescoes and a Michelangelo statue, thence into an anteroom which used to be Pope Leo's chamber. Nothing so vulgar as a "no smoking" sign could be tolerated here; carefully chiseled stone tablets proclaim: "ll Sind-aco proibisce di fumare in questa sola" (The Mayor forbids smoking in this hall...
...courtyard, the bodies were being placed in unpainted coffins. A bulldozer was dredging a common grave. The vegetable garden tended by the condemned during their imprisonment burgeoned in the spring sunshine. It could be seen from the cell where Hitler in 1924 wrote Mein Kampf...
Last week, as he and 47 other convicted Nazis walked to the black-curtained scaffolds in the sun-washed courtyard, Willi whispered: "I am dying like Jesus on the cross . . . without fault...