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...shipyard, a foreman asks for a wedge. Chaplin knocks one out of a cradle, thus launching an unfinished boat. He goes back to work in the steel factory. The workers go on strike. He gets a job as night watchman in a department store where he enjoys roller skating through the corridors at night. When three old cronies break into the store, Chaplin is constrained to share a snack with them in the wine department. Next morning he wakes up on a counter under a mass of lingerie. He goes to jail...
...against the mine wall. Young John had just enough time to spike Pete between the eyes with the point of the sprag of his coal car. To avoid imminent fine and dismissal, the young mine worker rubbed clay over the prostrate Pete's fatal wound, explained to the foreman that the animal had just dropped dead of natural causes...
...have," replied the foreman. "We find the defendant not guilty." Judge Bryant jerked upright, a grey forelock falling over his wide, incredulous eyes. From the courtroom rose a shrill burst of female cheers. The judge banged his gavel, got quiet. Turning to the jury, he cried in a voice sharp with scorn: "You have labored long, and no doubt have given careful consideration to this case. Before I discharge you I will have to say that your verdict is such that shakes the confidence of law-abiding people in integrity and truth...
...been editor of the St. Paul Daily News for the past 16 years, brought half a dozen furloughed Department of Justice operatives to town to expose malfeasance in the St. Paul police force. There was a grand jury hearing, followed by a whitewash delivered over the radio by the foreman just as the late John Dillinger was shooting his way out of a local apartment house. But the Daily News's agitation last year helped St. Paul elect a reform Mayor who appointed as Commissioner of Public Safety Henry Edward ("Ned") Warren, a conscientious citizen who came fresh...
...characters are mostly riff-raff but gloriously magnified and particularized into heroic proportions: Michael, the burnt-out veteran of 32; Baruch, the philosopher of the one-horse printshop; Catherine, the virgin in search of an angel; Chamberlain, the cheerfully hopeless incompetent businessman; Tom Withers, the intelligently rat-minded foreman. Only ordinary character in the book is Joseph, whose very ordinariness lights up the grotesque genius of his companions, casts a reflected light on himself. Says he to himself, out of his bewilderment: "Here all these months have gone past and they are still talking a lingo that has no meaning...