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...with scrupulous regularity for nearly 40 years. . . . [There was also] Disraeli, twice premier of England, whom Lytton Strachey describes as 'a vainglorious creature racked by gout and asthma, dyed and corseted with a curl on his miserable old forehead kept in its place all night by a bandana handkerchief!' . . . Kant, while living in Holland, lived in 13 different places and changed his abode 24 times; Voltaire [was] inordinately vain, unscrupulous, once a forger and seemingly ever tempted by suicide. . . . William James often thought of suicide...
Into New York City police headquarters last week walked a twinkly-eyed little man between two Federal agents. At the desk Lieutenant James Finn, oldtime New York detective, glanced up in surprise, remarked: "Hello, Johnny. I haven't seen you in a long time." Into his handkerchief Johnny spat an inaudible reply...
...bevy of deep-bosomed young women in the striped skirts and handkerchief headdresses of the peasants of the Roman Campagna broke through the guards, nearly mobbed the Dictator. All their noses were carefully powdered and some had lacquered finger nails. II Duce was delighted. From one he took a bunch of flowers; another he chucked under the chin; at a third he cocked a roguish eye. In the best of moods he invited all the foreign correspondents present to lunch. In a body they moved on to a dusty little trattoria whose proprietor, trembling with excitement, rushed from house...
Last week pinheaded Daniel Bannister was convicted of murder, the jury recommending clemency. The judge called up the two youths and, wiping his mouth with his handkerchief, muttered, "I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you are dead and may Almighty God have mercy on your souls...
This was considered last week the most damaging link in the chain of circumstantial evidence drawn by the Crown about the accused man's neck. On the last day of the trial, Ratanji jittered, wept, frequently wiped with a handkerchief his profusely perspiring hands. Yet there was still no direct evidence. After the jury verdict of guilty, Justice Singleton put on the black cap which in Britain means that sentence of Death is to be pronounced. "The law knows but one sentence," he cried, "for the terrible crime you have committed...