Word: likings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accede to their decision. . . . Daniel Weisbach told me that during the jury deliberation he paced the floor in agony of mind and heart, trying to stop his ears to the flood of arguments advanced by those who wanted a verdict of guilty. Finally he had to join in, but like the majority of the other jurors, only with the understanding that there would be a recommendation for mercy. . . . He voted for conviction because he was worried about his wife who was an expectant mother. . . . He told me the jury room was very cold and he was very ill and spitting...
...keeper's key was to be made. In the power-house was unearthed a tomahawk-shaped utensil for short-circuiting all the lights in the old cellblock. Said Warden Lawes: "This was a scheme for a general jail delivery. . . . If it had succeeded we might have another riot like Dannemora...
...Like the Buffalo robbers, four masked bandits stalked in upon a party at the Champaign, Ill. home of Metalman Henry H. Harris. At first mistaken for jokesters, they lined up 100 celebrating socialites, stripped them of $50,000 worth of jewelry and cash. Among the divested guests were Dr. David Kinley, president of the University of Illinois, and his daughter...
...exasperated with the Kaiser because of his sudden vagaries . . . like his speech about the yellow peril ... a speech worthy of any fool Congressman; and I cannot of course follow or take too seriously a man whose policy is one of such violent and often wholly irrational zig-zags...
Charley Horse with Albie Booth up looks like a pretty safe bet at long odds...