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...closet key. Finally, in 1930, Marthe went on a hunger strike to get her case into court, became a popular heroine. Forbidden to feed her forcibly in jail, police transferred her to a hospital. Then it took seven internes to hold her while they got the tube into her nostril. Left alone for a moment, the supposedly famished woman slid down a rope of sheets out the windows and went back to jail. Doctors said her physical condition was better than ever. The Hanau Case, loaded with political dynamite, was elaborately muffled by the courts. It got two editors...
...their buglike [deflated] resting shape. When the worms are disturbed they clamp onto anything within reach-in this instance the inside of the duck's mouth or throat. By distention when filled with blood they then either choke the bird to death ... or work into the nostrils and prolong the agony. The reeds are full of choking birds. "At Stobart Lake we chased lightly afflicted birds in a boat over the bodies of thousands . . . floating upon the water in all stages of decomposition. . . . Captured birds, removed to the Inglewood government bird sanctuary . . . have recovered rapidly after removal...
...Human Values" In a voice which matches in timbre and persuasiveness that of an expensive Park Avenue physician, President Green, whose right nostril is broadened from a scar received in an Ohio coal mine, delivered the Federation's keynote: "During the Depression the A. F. of L. kept the faith. The movement has kept intact so that when happy days come again we will do all in our power to see that the American worker will get back the wages taken from him during the Depression. . . . Our fight is for a better manhood, for a better motherhood...
...TIME, a whisker is a whisker whether it grows out of chin, ear, nostril, facial mole or upper...
...Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Elijah Johnson, Negro handler, was caught plugging a piece of sponge into the nostril of Racehorse Sun Mission to shorten his wind, insure his losing. Sun Mission finished third. Elijah Johnson's sentence: 90 days in gaol...