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...Pilate saith unto them, 'Behold the man!'-ST. JOHN, 19:5. Judge Pilate found Jesus guiltless, scourged him and delivered him to the Jewish rabble. Soldiers platted thorns, crowned Jesus "King of the Jews." Jewish priests cried: "Crucify! Crucify...
Mirrors and pictures, guiltless of the crime of area, are allowed full freedom of the walls. Such accoutrements, intelligent, it must be admitted, are more feminine than male. Broad-beamed gentlemen denizens remain skeptical of the idea...
...quite well until 1919 when he inadvertently attacked Harper & Bros. for publishing the dull biography of a prostitute. He obtained a conviction, but Harpers won their appeal in New York's highest court, which weakened Comstockian Section 1141 by holding that questionable art or literature is guiltless unless it "tends to excite lustful or lecherous desire." Tendencies are such vague things that Mr. Sumner's record fell off from 150 convictions...
...vain the Government, supporters yelled hack that most of these charges were lies in the first place and that anyhow M. Malvy had expiated whatever guilt was his by submitting to a sentence of exile, until released by the general amnesty. Jeeringly Deputy Ybarnegaray cried: "Since he is so guiltless, why has he never applied for a retrial?" By way of added insult Deputy Barillet shrieked: "In 1917 they executed 25 traitors. Thank God they shot them before the amnesty law was passed! Beware how you reinstate Malvy in the very office which he occupied before he was banished! Chacal...
...York Times, not feeling so strong a proprietory ardor in the invistigation, allowed it a column in the middle of the first page and a one column head. But the front pages of three Republican papers, The New York Herald-Tribune, The Boston Herald, and The Boston Transcript, were guiltless of the news. It found one column space on page three of the Tribune and on page seventeen of the Herald. In the Transcript, it did not appear...