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...time never come when it will be the wise course to lock the college doors and let sheep and cattle graze on the campus that in former years had been the happy hunting ground for those who sought culture...
...reference to this book plate, library officials stated: "We make no comments, as none are needed." All the volumes in question had to be kept under lock and key until the case had been decided...
Among the many famed lovers of Amandine Lucile Aurore Dupin Dudevant (George Sand) was the volcanic lawyer, Michel de Bourges, who upon completing a fervent lecture on republicanism, would lock her in her bedroom to meditate his philosophy. But that there were no lovers at all has occurred only to George Sand's loyal granddaughter, Aurore Sand (Mme Lauth). Indignant that there should be so much talk concerning the chastity of her illustrious grandmother, Aurore Sand sued Jacques Boulenger in her defense when he published The Early Loves of George Sand in 1928, but lost when the court ruled...
Infuriated, Judge Robertson called Editor Mapoles into court again, demanded to know who "Jokester" was. The editor said the name of "A. P. Harp" was signed beneath the pseudonym. No Mr. Harp was found in Hopewell. Barked the judge: "Take him and lock him up, sergeant; take him and lock him up until he produces A. P. Harp or tells who really wrote that letter?not more than 30 days...
When buck deer fight to the often as not it is starvation, not wounds that kills them. Their horns lock, and in the spring a woodsman will find such skeletal traces of the combat as the foxes and mice have left. Last week a railroad brakeman in Colorado came before spring did. He saw two big bucks fighting in the snow near the tracks, their horn locked. When he got to Steamboat Springs, the brakeman told the agent, who told some farmers, who took rope and saw, cut the deer apart, watched them bound off towards the woods side...