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Luther's bullet-riddled body is in the ditch...
...Missouri Democrats meeting in St. Louis pledged their 36 convention votes to their "favorite son," James A. Reed, but decided against taking a "last ditch" stand...
...nearer, always louder. At last with a great roar it burst out around the high walls of the Bastille and the Revolution had begun. The Paris mob broke up running, shouting, shrieking, calling, hurling, swearing, beating, advancing, swarming; but always moving, always attacking, always increasing. They stormed the deep ditch, the double draw bridge, the eight great towers amid cannon, musket fire and smoke. And in the crowd stood Defarge of the wine shop grown hot with the work of four fierce hours. He called to his men, he shouted at his wife, he bellowed at the sky until...
...Chestnut owned by C. P. Brocklehurst named Pelorus Jack. Waiting for the start, while the heavier jockeys stood beside their mounts to avoid tiring them, Pelorus Jack was well-behaved. He balked at one of the early jumps and unseated his rider. At the Canal Turn, a 6-ft. ditch and 5-ft. hedge of fir in front of a right-angle turn, Pelorus Jack was responsible for one of those moments of wild confusion which occur in every Grand National and make it the most dangerous, most uncertain horse race in the world...
...course of youth and growth should not be checked by age and tradition. The scene is the Taos of 1847, last stand of Castilian feudality before the rising tide of Northern conquest. Old Pablo Montoya (J. Edward Bromberg) has resolved to resist the Gringo invasion to the last ditch, to protect his lands and the imperious institutions in which he believes. As a result of his convictions, he kills one son for treating with the enemy, almost kills another who is in love with the girl whom Pablo has decided to take for his third wife. He finally realizes...