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...Tuttle, who took a nap in court while a score of other witnesses told how their pets had died or become sick after she fed them, freely admitted occasional cat killings, "to put them out of their misery." "But," she explained. "I never picked up an animal that was licensed or had a home...
...court, under the tutelage of the Duke of Norfolk (Henry Stephenson). Young Tom Canty thrives in the gutter, with Latin lessons from Father Andrew and whackings from his father (Barton MacLane). Prowling about London one day, Tom crawls under a bench outside the castle to take a nap. The Captain of the Guard hauls him out and is giving him a thrashing when Prince Edward comes out of the palace to call his dog. Prince invites pauper indoors to play. They change clothes for a joke, laugh when the mirror shows how much they look alike. Then the Prince runs...
...Though they had traveled 300 wet, slippery miles from South Bend, Ind., the Wiener Sängerknaben (Singing Boys of Vienna) were erect and lively as they marched into their hotel. There they stripped to the waist, scrubbed their faces, brushed their teeth, composed themselves for a short nap. That night they made the little college town gasp at their sweet voices and expert phrasing. Students, teachers and farmers from 100 miles around listened reverently to da Vittoria's 16th-Century hymn to the King of Heaven. The Singing Boys made it as simple and severe as the black...
...vote for Landon) preached for 40 minutes. Having put a dollar bill in the collection, Nominee Landon departed for Sunday dinner with his great-aunt, his old nurse "Aunt" Mary Baird and others who cared for him in infancy. Finally he went to the parsonage, his birthplace, took a nap in Preacher Shilling's Study...
...Powers (Britain, France, Italy and Belgium) adopted and sent to the guilty State proposals which M. Flandin said were the minimum France could accept and which British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said were submitted to evoke from Germany either acceptance or counter proposals. Exhausted Mr. Eden then took a nap in the Foreign Office, after which he motored to spend a quiet country weekend with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Behind him he left instructions that he could not be reached by telephone unless the call was from Berlin. Exhausted Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain who, like Adolf Hitler, finds...