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...that meant "electric chair," the courtroom doors were not unlocked. Every newshawk in the room was prepared for that emergency. A reporter down in front raised a red handkerchief, and a messenger at the rear door shoved a red slip of paper through the sill. One newshawk, poised to hurl colored iron balls through the window pane, was thwarted by lowered window blinds. Nerviest of all was Reporter Francis Toughill of the Philadelphia Record, who boldly scraped the insulation off the courtroom telephone wire, hooked in a telephone headset. Crouched in the balcony he calmly called his city desk, gave...
...cross beams of the tribe's Big House. This building fell down in 1910, and the statue was left undisturbed until noted by Mr. Arnold. At that time the Indians refused to part with the effigy, but later, according to the museum plague, a missionary persuaded the tribe to hurl the huge pole into the sea. It was subsequently washed as here on Vancouver Island, where Mr. Arnold found it and had it shipped to Maine...
...witch doctor. Years before his hands had been cut off for striking a white man who was ravishing his sister. Impersonal, implacable, patient, he waits the consummation of justice, knowing his thought will eventually bring his enemy within range of his assagai which he has learned to hurl with his feet. He has his revenge...
...sources, as well as conclusions, but they cannot say he has failed to back up his generalizations with evidence. He writes with temperate civility, trying to make his case intellectually rather than emotionally, and only on rare occasions does he step out of his role of scholarly logician to hurl the professional thunderbolts of Communist rhetoric...
...German youth! Throw from you the last remnants of your Christian education, which destroys the character of Nordic man. Hurl from you the Jewish-Christian ideas of sinfulness, pity and love for your enemies...