Word: ephraim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police investigation revealed nothing, and Webster no doubt breathed a sign of relief. But he failed to consider Ephraim Littlefield, his janitor. On Wednesday Littlefield attacked the bricked-up vault in the basement with a chisel. Two days later he finally broke through the wall. "I managed to get my light and my head into the hole, and then I was not disturbed with the draft. I held my light forward, and the first thing which I saw was the pelvis of a man, and two parts of a leg. I knew that it was no place for these things...
...blunt, five-page decision issued yesterday, Superior Court Judge Lewis Goldberg decreed the novel "obscene, indecent, and impure." The Judge's decision came six weeks after the hearings in which the lawyer for Henry Miller and Grove Press, Mr. Ephraim London, had tried to show that the book was not obscene...
...request came early in the morning from attorney Ephraim London, the New York lawyer who represents both Miller and the publishers of the book, Grove Press, Inc. London asked permission to withdraw from the case on behalf of Grove Press' president, Barney Rosset, but continue in the proceedings as Miller's representative...
Miller and his publishers, Grove Press, are represented by Attorney Ephraim London, a New York lawyer who makes a specialty of this sort of case. He is not about to play the prosecution's game of letting the case turn on the contents of the book alone...
...darkness speak, Rembrandt surrounds the entire scene with a deathly shadow, concentrates the light mainly in Jacob as that moment's vessel of God's will, and then makes it leap and pour goldenly past the dark head and hurt eyes of Manasseh upon fair-haired Ephraim, who shines like his grandfather...