Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ambassador Dawes:"I'd better take this pipe out of my mouth, I'm a diplomat now [pause]; no, by gosh...
...Monte M. Lemann, President of the Louisiana Bar Association...
...went into the racket in Chicago four and a half years ago. During the last two years I've been trying to get out. ... I want peace. I'm willing to live and let live. I'm tired of murders and shootings.... I'm retired and living on my money...
...next morning Capone faced the detective line-up at 9:30 a. m., was indicted by the Grand Jury at 10:25 a. m. for carrying concealed weapons, went on trial at 11:30 a. m., pleaded guilty (with Cline) at 12:15 p. m., started a year's sentence at 12:50 p. m. Exactly 16 hrs. 35 min. elapsed between his arrest and the beginning of his sentence-a record. Remarked Capone: "They work fast here...
...m. the sun was rising. Venus shone with especial brilliancy. At precisely that midhour the General woke up of his own accord. He felt refreshed, vigorous. As a revolutionary against Spain from 1895 to 1898 he had learned to sleep deeply in brief periods. He pattered to his bath, a stocky, powerful man of 57. A secretary followed, reading to him summaries of the night's news. The President sloshed himself, dried himself, shaved himself (the secretary reading the while) and dressed himself in formal morning clothes. Like most male Cubans he detests woolen clothes. But this...