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...Life of Insull to get at the fraud of Corporation Securities. To help him are 2,500 exhibits, 200 witnesses to identify the exhibits, a freshly made 22-ft. bookcase in the courtroom to hold the exhibits. At the end of last week he was still busy having his mute witnesses identified by a voluble line of clerks and accountants. He will need at least four more weeks to com plete his presentation of the case...
...much more interesting and proud." Not I, But the Wind is in no sense a great book but it is a convincingly naive memoir, thickly padded with unpublished Lawrence letters, that most Lawrentians will want to read. And, having read it, even Lawrentians may heed the mute nunc dimittis of their master's shade...
...city machine opposed him, and the Eastern Shore, where his anti-lynching stand last winter was widely resented (TIME, Oct. 30, 1933). Nevertheless, Maryland's perennial chief executive won by nearly 50,000 votes his fourth successive Democratic renomination to succeed himself. Harry Whinna Nice of Baltimore gave mute, inglorious Senator Phillips Lee Goldsborough a two-to-one trouncing for the Republican right to oppose Governor Ritchie...
...cold, unimaginative Victoria Eugenie, Princess of Battenberg, brought her husband woe too. She was never really popular among Spaniards. She brought the King the dread haemophilia (easy bleeding) of her house, bore him a haemophilia heir, a second son who was a deaf mute, finally two whole boys, two fine girls capable of passing on their mother's haemophilia...
...White Plains, N. Y., deaf mute Joseph Donahue was miserable because his deafmute mate, Bertha, no longer loved him. When his affectionate fingers soothed, coaxed, enlaced in tender love words. Bertha's fingers only snapped, coiled, contorted scornfully. In time, Joseph became suspicious, enlisted deafmute friends to trail Bertha, sued for divorce. In court, after the fingers of his friends curled, twirled, twisted out their discovery of Bertha's adultery with an electrical engineer, she could only wring, writhe, entwine her own fluttering hands in full confession...