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...sheer fiendishness, kills an inoffensive Italian window-washer and an Irish bartender, then has Johnny arrested for murder. Because the old man swears he was an eyewitness and Johnny's alibi is weak, things look black for him. But with Johnny in deadly peril, Trelia's love suddenly awakens, matures overnight. With a woman's unerring instinct, she liquidates the little old man. The State's case collapses, Johnny is set free. Trelia comes to live with him. For a week he is as happy as a Buchmanite in Eden. Then Trelia relapses into feyness, goes...
...Declaration: "When in the course of the life of a nation, its people become neglectful of the laws of nature and of nature's God, so that their very existence is put in peril, necessity impels them to turn to the soil in order to recover the right of self-maintenance...
...twelve leading Baltimore men. In that letter he revealed the tender core of his heart. Wrote he: "The indigent sick of this city and its environs, without regard to sex, age, or color, who may require surgical or medical treatment, and who can be received into the Hospital without peril to the other inmates, and the poor of this city and State, of all races, who are stricken down by any casualty, shall be received into the Hospital, without charge, for such periods of time and under such regulations as you may prescribe...
...being organized lend color to and substantiate the general feeling which has already been incontestably generated. . . . [German] rearmament, if continued at the present rate, unabated and uncontrolled, will aggravate the existing anxieties of Germany's neighbors and may consequently produce a situation where peace will be in peril...
This charleyhorse of Leavitt S. (Levi) White '37 is the white man's peril right now, for it is that that threatens to send the Feslermen down to dark defeat. For a team drilled ever since the start of the season as practically a five-man squad, due to the exigencies of material, such an accident to one of the regulars is little less than tragic, and no adequate solution has yet been found. Both By Moser and Jack Mason, regulars on last year's Freshman quintet, have been working out at the right forward position, trying...