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...Then I was taken to Ofuna. Every day was the same. I got slugged in the jaw about every day, mostly for not being polite. To get to the toilet you had to ask the guard's permission politely, then thank him politely for the favor when you came back. If you were having dysentery, as most of us did at times, it meant a hell of a lot of politeness day & night...
...Some telltale sores: the violin player's on the left side of the jaw; the optical glass molder's burn sores and scars on knuckles and arms ; milkers' nodules which farmers sometimes get on their hands...
Although the Duce's upper teeth now protruded grotesquely, there was no mistaking his jaw. In death, Mussolini seemed a little man. He wore a Fascist Militia uniform - grey breeches with a narrow black stripe, a green-grey tunic and muddy black riding boots. A bullet had pierced his skull over the left eye and emerged at the back, leaving a hole from which the brains dripped. Mistress Petacci, 2 5 -year-old daughter of an ambitious Roman family, wore a white silk blouse. In her breast were two bullet holes ringed by dark circles of dried blood...
Citizen Fixit. In Teaneck, N.J., John Daddy, 50 and suspicious, watched a man open an automobile door and take out a package, expostulated, got no explanation, promptly fractured his jaw. In police court. Daddy learned that the man was Cornelius Graham, the car's owner...
...most anything, he broke his own league record. The Yankees' five-game spurt which made them the team to beat in the American League-despite the Chicago White Sox's five straight wins-did not even raise a smile on Joe McCarthy's square jaw. Said poker-faced Joe: "My team's better than last year. We'll win the pennant...