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...Listless Lawyer. By 1905 Holland Smith, 23, graduate of Alabama Polytechnic Institute and the University...
...hopelessly confused with prints which might have been found later on a piece of glassware. The mystery of how the mosquito netting over Sir Harry's bed could burn without smudging the white ceiling was left unsolved. On these and many other points the Crown had seemed strangely listless. But the defense had shown the same caution, left spectators puzzling over its failure to challenge numerous alibis...
Inside Italy the news produced consternation. Where a month earlier the news of armistice and an end to fighting brought smiles, flowers, wet and fervent masculine kisses for embarrassed Allied soldiers, now there were stricken faces and listless shrugs. Around Allied camps, surging crowds begged for food and cigarets. Each morning ragged soldiers, shuffling aimlessly homeward, queued up wherever Allied operations might offer a day's work and a square meal. Fighting was out of the question for most. In Sorrento and in other picture-book resorts tucked away around the Bay of Naples, wealthy, well-dressed Fascists...
...surface, the campaign in Ohio had been listless. But when short, swarthy, forceful Congressman Stephen M. Young, a New Deal enthusiast and the best Democratic vote-getter in the Buckeye State, went home just before election he heard rumblings that jarred his political ears. Farmers grumbled about the Administration's clamping down on farm prices, women complained of drafting 18-and 19-year-olds, citizens everywhere were impatient with the handling of the war. Steve Young found many Democrats with a don't-care attitude; he knew before election day that he was beaten...
...neither he nor any other Ohio politico was prepared for what the "listless" voters did at the polls. Republicans gained eight seats in the House, the biggest turnover in any State; handsome, grey-thatched Republican Governor John W. Bricker won by 375,000, the biggest majority ever given an Ohio governor. It was the lightest vote since the early '20s, but it was not the Republicans who stayed away. The G.O.P. had gained in previous off years, but never this much...