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...floggers. Governor Walker, too, is a "proud and noble" Klansman. Hence, the reward offers of these two gentlemen may either be taken as gestures of righteous indignation or as a means of diverting suspicion from guilty fellow-Klansmen. Judge R. E. Hardeman of the Toombs circuit did not hush up such a suspicion when he told the press last week: "It is generally known that between 40 and 50 persons attired in official Ku Klux Klan regalia paraded through Lyons shortly before Brown was seized and hurried out of town. Brown himself stated to me that there was absolutely...
When ticket No. 17,229 fell from the ticket globe no stir was occasioned; but an instant later, amid a deadly hush, the $2,500,000 Grand Prize disc was seen to have rattled down...
There was a hush in the upper chamber as Senator William Cabell Bruce, Democrat, of Maryland, rose to speak. Only Vice President Dawes and Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, who was author and co-author of such controversial measures as the 18th Amendment and the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act, were present to listen to him. His words, however, were not hushed;* they were put into the Congressional Record and spread about by the press of the land; and that is what Senator Bruce wanted...
...physicians it should be remembered that they spend their time among the sick, the wayward, the abnormal of this world. In philosophy their knowledge of our flesh-faults is a heavy balance wheel to the tangents of our loose idealism. As critics of society, they tend to hush the hallelujah chorus, introducing sardonic groans for those imperfections of mankind at which the Chautauqua-shouters, sniffing the electric air of a millennium, flap their coattails. The true earnest of a physician's worth outside his consulting room* is therefore the degree to which he refrains from hollow croaking; the degree...
Three issues "in President Lowell's tenure" were cited as having been handled in hush: intellectual freedom of the faculty, exclusion of Jews and making Harvard "safe for the genteel...