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...night, the night to get high, get drunk and strut. Baby Love's entire wrecking crew is here, sprawled over cars, squatting on the sidewalk, jiving. There is Shistang ("He be cool with dice"), Little Spank, Gugu, Snake Eyes, Shilo, Spider Man, Daddy Rich, Little June, Snatch Pocket Earl and Snootchy Fingers...
...national custom for Americans of every philosophical shade to berate the federal courts, from the highest down, over decisions that cut against the popular grain. Conservative calls for the impeachment of activist Chief Justice Earl Warren were commonplace. But to allow anger at the courts to grow into political action that would disable them could prove extremely perilous. What needs to be remembered is why the federal courts so frequently go against the grain of popular sentiment. More often than not they are doing what they, alone among U.S. institutions, were designed to do: safeguarding the fundamental rights...
...Eyam to save the rest of Derbyshire. Such was the authority of the clergy, the power of faith and the eloquence of the 28-year-old rector that the people of Eyam agreed. A circle was marked out with stones around the town a half-mile in radius. The Earl of Devonshire agreed to provide most of the necessary food and other goods, which outsiders left nervously on the perimeter every week...
...Earl: Egad, sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows...
...suppose, would be a calamity." Some English insults are sharp. Nye Bevan on Anthony Eden: "The juvenile lead." Some are odd. Charles Kingsley called Shelley "a lewd vegetarian." It sounds interesting but is difficult to picture. The top of the line was created by John Wilkes for the Earl of Sandwich...