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...time the trial rolled around there might be other victims-victims of eager political rumor and diligent speculation. Briggs pleaded not guilty. The trial was weeks away. For how many men was Briggs the goat? How much smoke proves a fire? There was plenty of time. Republican Senator William Langer of North Dakota, who had made a 57-page speech when he introduced the full cast of the mystery to the Senate, announced that he planned to make another...
...Forest. A little fleet of cars took the party ten miles out the Vitebsk road to Goat Hill, overlooking the Dnieper. A light snow was falling on the slender, leaning birches, the bare oaks, the tall evergreens and the huge mounds of frozen sand with the black boots sticking out. Kathy and her companions stumbled over the rough ground, past pits the size of tennis courts, to where Dr. Victor Prozorovsky, senior medical expert of the Atrocities Commission, stood on a freshly turned heap of red sand. He was directing Red Army men as they hacked out frozen, mildewed Polish...
Lionel Hampton, nimble-fingered Negro bandleader and vibraharpist,* joyfully admitted that he moans and grunts while hammering his instrument. Said he: "Some people say I sound like a billy goat...
...eyes and teeth pure white and savage in his face." His heel snapped de Vaudois's wrist with a crack, his hand snatched a pistol, pumped bullets through the Nazi's heart. "So-vengeance," he snarled. Old Cousin Perrin shuffled in with food for the lovers. "The goat cheese is fresh," he observed, pulling the corpse into the passage. "This is just the beginning for all of us," said the cure, thumbing the marriage service. "My wife!" cried Bastineau...
...retired U.S. Chief of Staff talked to reporters on his 79th birthday. General Peyton C. March's pointed goat-beard had gone grey; but his eyes were sharp and blue as ever, his tongue still as acid as in 1918, when even the dread "March smile" was enough to burn holes in his subordinates. During World War I, General March was the superior officer and most watchful critic of the A.E.F.'s General John J. Pershing...