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...white sweat shirt drew loud laughter by pretending to direct the hymn. Then, some in the crowd picked up dust and debris from the road and tossed it over the singers, but they paid no attention. A loudspeaker truck blaring jazz music raced up and pointed its horn directly at the group. Chief of Police Edward Carpentier arrived and ordered the singers to move on. When the Baptists refused, a dozen burly men hit them in a flying wedge. For 15 minutes the mauling went...
...early 1600s, a certain gentleman of Jamestown murdered his wife, cut her in pieces and later "was burned for his horrible villainy." In Carolina, a horn snake struck at a small locust tree the thickness of a man's arm, and six hours later the tree was dead. Farther north, some Indians buried a white man, standing, with only his head above ground, scalped him and lit a fire close by. The heat made his brains boil and started his eyes gushing out of their sockets. In Casco Bay, Me., a merman tried to board a hunter...
Joseph T. Walker, Jr., of Chestnut Hill, a general partner in the firm of Horn-blower and Weeks, Boston investment bankers, was elected a member of the Council and a trustee...
Chewing on a cold cigar and occasionally spitting dangerously into his brass gaboon, he stood at his Senate desk, bellowing with annoyance, dealing out forensic cuffs and insults while his horn-rimmed glasses slipped lower & lower on his nose...
...addition to the 12-hit attack, the Crimson played exceptionally well in the field. Myles Huntington initiated two fast "around the horn" double plays, and Johnny White started in a third...