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...Mexican sculptor as one of ten giant figures of lawmakers to adorn the new home of the first Appellate Department of the New York court system, overlooking Manhattan's Madison Square. The other nine were Moses, Hindustan's Manu, Persia's Zoroaster, Sparta's Lycurgus, Athens' Solon, China's Confucius, Byzantium's Justinian, Wessex' Alfred and France's Louis IX. An odd list, but it is easy to see what those who drew it up had in mind. They wanted to express the universality of the idea of law. Lycurgus...
Guest: new K.K.K. head, Lycurgus Spinks...
...good blood." Last week, for instance, Das Schwarze Korps plugged for artificial insemination of childless women. Wrote Editor d'Alquen: "The problem is to find a helper toward procreation . . . who will place his hereditary substance at [their] disposal." The SS publication cribbed from the ancient Spartan Code of Lycurgus by recommending that impotent husbands choose their brothers to impregnate fertile brides...
Mississippi's husky Aubert C. Dunn, 39-year-old War veteran who in 1934 defeated Rev. W. Lycurgus Spinks for his House seat, uprose to boom in a bullfrog voice: "I have not been boisterous since I became a freshman in this Congress. ... I have been the recipient of so many kind and courteous favors from my senior colleagues, until it makes me feel fainty. ... I want you to go with me to a place down at 311 D Street, NW, in the city of Washington...
...Birmingham, Ala., Epheus and Mary Thomas named their daughter Laxative. Other names given to Negro children, as revealed by 'the Bureau of Vital Statistics: Rosy & Posy (twins), Arcola, Miserable, Roach, Zenobia, Poindexter, Diplomj, Nebuchadnezzar, Mumps, Cleopatra, Love Lycurgus, Measles, Cleop, Island, Moraphine, Shylock, Phemia Initia, Shinola, Truthie, Listerine, Providentia, Etoy, Zeller, Delphine-Richlene, Arcadia, Zebedee, Charity, Orestee-Lennion, Ishman-Julius, Friendly James, Pearlean, Amorous, Dimples, Violin, Mystic Kate, Ivory White, Ivory Shivers...