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...William Snow Miller looks like General Custer. William Harvey looked like Shakespeare. Otherwise the two anatomists resemble one another astonishingly. A friend of Harvey described him as short, bright-eyed, quick, alert, choleric, often fingering the handle of his dagger. A friend of Dr. Miller describes him as "a chipper, cheerful, deaf little man, almost military in preciseness and persistence; as high-tempered as he is patient and potent; just, exacting, and opinionated...
...Beatley would have one believe removes most valid objections. This section is a pious statement that the law is not intended to interfere with freedom of speech and thought as guaranteed by the Constitution. In fact, this very tergiseveration admits that the law aims to do just that. A dagger dipped in honey is no less deadly...
...months ago he gave a lecture on art in London, stomped down the aisle to the dais wearing a deep-sea diving suit, a jeweled dagger at his belt (carrying a billiard cue in one hand and leading a pair of Russian wolfhounds with the other). Nearly overcome by heat before the helmet could be unscrewed, he explained: "I just wanted to show that I was plunging deeply into the human mind...
...been in mortal fear lest Alf Landon in the White House might crimp the Canadian-U.S. Trade Treaty. This treaty has proved one of the most potent forces in spurring Canadian recovery and the New York Times's Ottawa correspondent wired that its rupture would be "a dagger-thrust for the present Canadian Government...
...Russian stock imported and freed by South Carolina planters some three decades ago, bear about the same relation to domestic pigs as a Tasmanian bushman bears to a Tammany district leader. Lean and muscular, weighing 150 to 400 lb., the boars' chief characteristics are great speed, ferocious courage, dagger-sharp tusks which can rip a dog or man to tatters. Tennessee mountaineers rate them more dangerous than bears. A Cherokee Forest ranger lately failed to stop one with ten bullets, escaped with his life only because his dog diverted the charging beast...