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...Orleans declared: "I have dedicated my life to the extermination of Huey Long md all his kind from politics. I am not here to talk, but to listen to what you want me to do." "If it is necessary to teach them decency at the end of a hempen rope," cried Mayor George W. Hardy Jr. of Shreveport, "I, for one, am willing to swing the rope!" Adjourning with the angry cry that the next time they returned to the State capital it would be with pistols, the crowd went home to organize a Statewide body of anti-Long vigilantes...
...lights cannot make a poor picture good, but it can more than satisfy the greediest publicity manager of Hollywood and furnish ample opportunity for the exercise of his pre-view talent. Little need be said of the spider web which ironically enough must develop at times into a stout hempen rope, that gives excuse for the presence of George M. Cohan. And it does not content itself with a single exhibition of its star but must with unparalleled magnanimity, offer him to the audience twice, once as T.K. Blair, the nominee for the presidency of the land, and again...
...admitted, donned the rude brown habit with hempen girdle, the sandals on his bare feet. That was two years ago. Word of his entering the monastery spread through the land...
...school along lime-bordered paths past the back-hedges of the burghers of Juvissy, France, little Gabrielle Renaudot, a spindling girl with legs like matches, hempen ringlets and immense brown eyes peering from the wan mask of her face, would pause, with furtive admiration, to watch the famed astronomer meditating in his kitchen-garden. Her mother, Maria Latini, the original of Henri Regnault's famed painting, Salome, was a friend of Flammarion's. When she died, little Gabrielle went to the great man for advice and counsel. Was she fond of Science ? That was what he wanted...
...directions. On August 17, 1858, the first message went over the wire : " Europe and America are united by telegraph. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will toward men." The first cable consisted of a core of seven twisted copper wires, covered with gutta percha, hempen yarn saturated with pitch, wax, etc., and a spiral sheathing of iron wires, The whole about 6/10 of an inch in diameter and weighing one ton to the mile. The same general principles are followed today, but it is necessary to make the portions near the shore stronger and heavier...