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Then it was Bailey's turn. Wearing a charcoal gray suit, the banty, 5 ft. 7¾ in. ex-Marine flyer walked to the lectern, folded his arms, leaned toward the jury and, without glancing at his notes, delivered a calm, 30-minute summary of his case. There would be no denial that Patty was in the bank, he said, but he urged the jury to note that "perhaps for the first time in the history of bank robbery, a robber was directed to identify herself in the midst of the act." Patty, his argument ran, was a normal, marriage-bound...
...cracks are hardly sidesplitters. In fact, most humorous material on Ford is visual, not verbal. On NBC'S comedy show Saturday Night, Actor Chevy Chase often opens the program by stumbling into his lectern. Says Chase: "Ford is so inept that the quickest laugh is the cheapest laugh, and the cheapest is the physical joke...
...time heads had turned back toward Bailyn, he had crossed the stage and once again taken his place behind the lectern. Harvard's historian felt, in fact, that there had been an American Revolution...
...Count Ciano, ecstatically described the beauty of "bombs opening like red blossoms" upon the Ethiopian highlands. Hundreds of thousands of his barefoot soldiers had been killed by Fascist bombs and mustard gas. A small, bearded, hawk-faced figure with blazing black eyes, he stood at the lectern and declared: "I am here today to claim the justice that is due to my people ... God and history will remember your judgment." Then, as he stepped down, he murmured the words that were to serve as an epitaph not only for the impotent League but for the whole prewar world...
...waited patiently for the Lord," Priscilla Cushman was standing at the lectern in Appleton Chapel, wearing a solemn black robe and leading Morning Prayers: "and he inclined unto me, and heard...