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...working through a military ringmaster [General Johnson], we prefer civil war." "I do not think," said Mr. Lewis contemptuously, "that it will come to that. Those operators seek to make a virtue of imposing more degrading working conditions and medieval barbarism than any other mining region"-and proceeded to pile it on until the Southerner, fuming with rage, confronted him, demanded that they "settle the question outside...
...with another of his underlings, an unfrocked priest named Louis Chambon and the latter's mistress, a Mile Ballandreaux. When M. Poncel returned, found the horrid mess in his garden and the stains on the floor, French detectives at once remembered M. Sarret's garden and its pile of acid-eaten animal bones. The Schmidt sisters were questioned for hours. Finally Catherine Schmidt confessed. Louis Chambon, the unfrocked priest, had threatened to peach on Georges Sarret. Chambon was lured with his mistress to the house, and while Catherine Schmidt kept a motorcycle engine roaring in the cypress shaded...
...pupil who seemed to his teachers abnormal or subnormal in any way. Early last week two small boys heard whimpering sounds in a deserted ice house in a poor district of Chicago. Crawling through a broken skylight they came upon a 2½-year-old girl huddled on a pile of debris, her naked body black with frostbite. The boys whispered excitedly. Then an older boy, bold-eyed and sturdy in long pants, entered the ice house. "Scram, you!" he growled. The small boys ran off to the police. It did not take them long then to track down George...
...gadfly, had to play the heavy, as Chairman of the Finance Committee had to try to hold in check a Senate suddenly eager for taxes, taxes, more faxes. Sometimes the Progressives led by La Follette, Nye and Norris harried him with plans to soak the rich, to pile up surtaxes and estate taxes. Sometimes Couzens was after him to soak not the rich alone but all taxpayers in order to pay another small fraction of the huge expenses of the New Deal...
...over the ice as fast as a man can run. A good swiler can skin a seal in 40 to 60 seconds, and may take as many as 120 sculps per day. He may drag his sculps back to the ship at the day's end, or may pile them on an ice pan to be picked up later...