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...Willie Earle after he had been taken a few miles out into the countryside. Somebody "pulled the Negro out of the car by his belt." The drivers ''hit him several times with their fists and knocked him to the ground." One of the drivers pulled out a knife. "Before you kill him," he said, "I want to put the same scars on him that he put on Brown." Said Jessie Lee Sammons: "I could hear the tearing of clothing and flesh...
Bees & Ants. The next day he began thinking of his knife, out of reach in the car. He wondered if he could cut off his arm. He picked up a sliver of glass, cut himself with it, and then stopped, suddenly afraid that he might bleed to death. He decided that he would die in the end anyhow. It seemed odd. He was only 26. He had been in the Navy during the war (and spent 36 hours on a raft after his ship was torpedoed). He had a good job in a Standard Oil Co. paraffin plant in Oakland...
...haven for the probation-bound. The nervous ties, lost trips to Wellesley, and red-rimmed eyes that are a consequence of this misunderstanding are many and unnecessary. Unnecessary because the Bureau can quite demonstrably help the undergraduate to run through his average study problems like a hot knife through margarine. This fact is important because many men unknowingly employ hideously inept study methods, but achieve moderately good marks through huge outlays of study time. Such stumblers in the dark, as well as grade-hawks, may find it interesting that the marks of 8 out of 10 men rise after their...
...meet De Quincey's standards (". . . Something more goes into the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed.") Cohen & Coffin tell of a boy who hit his employer over the head several times with a hammer, stabbed him repeatedly with a hunting knife, and explained: "I just felt like doing...
...hands of one of the partners were already at K.'s throat, while the other thrust the knife into his heart and turned it there twice. With failing eyes K. could still see the two of them, cheek leaning against cheek, immediately before his face, watching the final act. 'Like a dog!' he said...