Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stryker paused to conjure up a picture of Toscanini at Carnegie Hall. "Now in a good orchestration," he declared, "there is always a theme. Perhaps the first violins take up the theme first . . . You sit back and soon [Toscanini] is bowing and the audience is a pulp." Said Stryker: "I pray I can stand in front of this orchestra of justice and take the theme of 'if you don't believe Chambers, then we have no case...
...expert had testified that the State Department documents had been typed on the Hiss typewriter; he could tell by the formations of the letter "G" for example. "You can look at all the 'Gs' you want," Stryker snorted, "they look good to me." He airily dismissed Mrs. Chambers' detailed testimony of homely intimacies between the two families. "You remember her," he said scornfully. "She sat there waving her hands as though she were priming a pump...
Stryker faced Hiss. His voice was choked with emotion. "Alger Hiss," he said hoarsely, "this long nightmare is drawing to a close. Rest well. Your case, your life, your liberty is in good hands." The summation had taken just over four hours...
Murphy dismissed the testimony to Hiss's good reputation-until caught up with, "Judas Iscariot had a reputation." So did Major General Benedict Arnold, who "could have called George Washington as a character witness." Murphy shouted: "Alger Hiss was a traitor. Another Benedict Arnold. Another Judas Iscariot. Another Judge Manton, who was in high places and was convicted right here in this building . . .* Someone has said that roses that fester stink worse than weeds. A brilliant man like this man, who betrays his trust, stinks. Inside that smiling face is a heart black and cancerous. He is a traitor...
From then on Andy Sheridan was always on the wrong side of the law. He had all the physical assets of a good professional killer-the pasty, expressionless face, the coldly squinting stare and a contemptuous disregard for human life. By 1930, he was an accomplished journeyman killer on the staff of mobster Dutch Schultz. In 1938, Boss Joe Ryan of the International Longshoremen's Association (A.F.L.) put Sheridan on his staff of waterfront goons working with another hired hand, John M. ("Cockeye") Dunn...