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...think it was necessary "to have persons snooping to see whether a Senator holds up his hand. I wish to say that I do not like such tactics," sniffed Capehart. The incident was portentous. Before the week was out, sniffs had swelled into snorts of wrath, and rumpled, hollow-eyed and unshaven Senators were on a parliamentary rampage...
Back in civilian life, the Pinkertons prospered. Every kind of criminal, from Western train robber to international jewel thief, fell before them. In 1886, they solved a New Orleans murder case in which the main clue was an obscure African poison injected from a hollow needle into the leg of a pretty girl. In the '20s, they caught a bigamist who gave as his reason for burning his second wife the indisputable fact that "it is hard for a man to support two wives...
...foxholes dotting the perimeter guarding the Army's 25th Division near Masan, Korea last August, a thin, hollow-eyed G.I. sat intently watching the dark no man's land ahead. He was Pfc. William Thompson of M Company. His buddies in the 25th's all-Negro 24th Regiment knew him as a professional type-always quiet, never talkative about his past. There wasn't much Private Thompson wanted to tell. Born out of wedlock, he had been brought up by his grandmother in New York City tenements, had finally run away and been taken into...
When the local doctor's report on the Platanito episode arrived in Mexico City last month, public-health officials dispatched two rabies experts to the area. They killed vampires with torches in abandoned buildings and hollow trees, asphyxiated them with smoke in caves, destroyed them by setting fire to the dry leaves of palm trees. Last week Mexican newspapers, with sighs of editorial relief, announced that vampires had been wiped out in the Platanito region...
...N.C.A.A. and the E.C.A.C. have succeeded in determining a price policy for the new gridiron industry, they will raise a glass to the memories of the days when football was a game, played for fun. If they are not shrewd and diligent, it will be a hollow gesture...