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...were gold and silver vessels worth $3,000-thuribles (censers), other ciboria, a gold-&-onyx crucifix, a pyx (watch-shaped case for carrying the Sacrament to the sick). Three marauders, whom Father Reyes's housekeeper had seen sneaking out of the church, had spilled holy oil from leaden containers, pried the tabernacle from its carved oak casing with a crowbar, done sacrilegious damage estimated...
Though the Scottsboro case has not figured very much in the summer news, it resumes operations next month in Alabama under a new management. In the meantime, however, the citizens have not found time too leaden-footed just to keep their hands in, they have engineered two typical lynchings in the last two months. The second and latest was a routine affair, but the first was, perhaps, a little more interesting. The negro defendants accused of crimes against whites were being taken by the police from Tuscaloosa to Decatur by a backroad, escorted by ten armed men in automobiles. When...
Across the wild northern hills comes the winter wind, painting the leaf and foliage dun and red, as age brings chrome and artificial scarlet to the cheeks of the decayed beauty. The skies are leaden, every rainy gust sweeps the skeleton branches cleaner, spreading on valley path and craggy niche a Turkey carpet. The airs, acrid with frost and aromatic from the sting of wood-smoke, freeze the new-pressed cider in the half-buried hogshead...
...Sever and weary nights in Widener. And what a bad time to study it is. Berkeley appears even more esoteric and fanciful than in January. Surely it must have been in March that Johnson bade him go kick a stone. The gilt shimmer of Imperial Napoleon tarnishes under the leaden light of a March sky and there is soil upon the green breeches. Rousseau weeping for his brain children beneath the trees seems only rather maudlin where before his cries ran down the avenues of revolution. The Vagabond, being no mathematician, can only wonder what an equilateral triangle can seem...
...bandages in gasoline, would hug a bomb to his breast with his one remaining arm and run as fast as he could to hurl himself & bomb against the Japanese. Not many "human bombs" reached their mark. Most blew up and burned up as the heroic Chinese ran into the leaden teeth of Japanese machine gun fire. Not in Shanghai but in London an English lay preacher started a movement to enlist Occidentals willing to go to Shanghai and heroically interpose themselves between the fighting Orientals until enough Occidentals had been killed to produce peace. His Majesty King George has decorated...