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Only a Verdict. When the verdict was ready (the jury was out more than 26 hours), Judy entered the courtroom at Archie's side, her face expressionless and pale, the blue circles under her eyes showing the strain of her trial. Smiling nervously, she turned to him: "I don't know whether I can take it or not." Lawyer Archie was brash and noisy as ever. "Don't worry," he explained with fatherly concern. "It's only a verdict...
Only when Murphy began cross-examining Mrs. Hiss did her voice tighten. In contrast to Stryker's lashing attack on Esther Chambers, Murphy was a gentle, polite inquisitor. More than once Priscilla Hiss was on the edge of tears. She left the stand looking pale and tired-but with her story, like her husband's, not shaken in most of its details...
...last week. made suitably weird use of such source materials. His thick-painted water colors ("I mix my paints with spit, mostly") represent public places from Mexico City and Harlem to Limerick and Toulon, all swarming with grinning monsters from every age. Peering happily at one representative specimen, the pale little painter with the pointed nose giggled: "Isn't that horrible? It gives me a turn. I thoroughly like...
...notions; he does not bother to qualify, to mitigate, to water-down. Consequently he writes with a vigor which approaches what those of us with more refined sensibilities might call bombast, but which is preferable a hundred times to the cautious standards set for the sober-minded by the pale prose of the New York Times's editorial page. I belong to a small band of people who like to enjoy what they read. We distrust the doctrine that holds dullness to be a sign of wisdom; but even if this doctrine were true, we would tend to prefer those...
After a moment's hesitation, he attempted a flight for freedom to his room under cover of darkness. A Yard cop, however, spotted his pale form and cried halt. The barefaced freshman failed to stop, and the policeman, may several policemen, took off in hot pursuit...