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...August 1865, a bald, middle-aged man lunged through the streets of Budapest thrusting circulars into the hands of startled pedestrians. "Young men and women! You are in mortal danger!" they read. "The peril of childbed fever menaces your life! Beware of doctors, for they will kill you! Remember! When you enter labor unless everything that touches you is washed with soap and water and then chlorine solution, you will die and your child with you! . . . Your friend, Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis...
...burly mortal visited the Olympian chamber of the U.S. Supreme Court one morning last week to see his former Cabinet colleague, Tom Clark, mount the bench for the first time. Confronted by a court attache as he searched for a seat, the visitor announced himself: "I'm Secretary Johnson." "What are you secretary of?" asked the attendant, unimpressed...
...What Tom, Dick or Joe will Taft have to beat? So far embarrassed anti-Taft forces didn't know. Lausche had shown no desire to get in a mortal combat with Taft. Besides, he rather liked Taft and had publicly said...
...Quezon ambush, his group had raided a convoy of ten trucks without harming anyone. "Why didn't you loot the Quezon party in the same way and let them go?" I asked. He replied with the Huk view of the class war: "People in trucks are not our mortal enemies. People in passenger cars...
...often than the Methodists and Baptists ("As for the Methodists, the Baptists and other such mudsills of the Lord . . ."). As for his own soul: "I go on believing dismally that when the bells ring and the cannon are fired, and people go rushing about frantic with grief, and my mortal clay is stuffed for the National Museum at Washington, it will be the veritable end of the noble and lovely creature once answering to the name of Henry...