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...County, rapping at the front door of a rickety ten-room frame house next to Gordonsville, Va.'s cemetery one afternoon last week. The answer was a rifle crack. A bullet plowed through the door straight into the sheriff's heart. Leaving his body crumpled on the porch, his two companions turned and fled, sure now that the old Negro cemetery caretaker, William Walles, and his old sister Cora, had gone completely...
...corpse was still on the porch when a detachment of State police appeared. Popping away from second-story windows, the crazy blackamoors would not let them get near it. As darkness fell the sheriff's brother made a rush, was stopped by a bullet in his cheek...
...light at midday, gives the stream of political writers and politically-minded citizens who have lately been pouring in on him a standard two-course luncheon. When a political correspondent arrived in midafternoon, Nancy Jo and Jack Landon were squabbling over a tricycle. Out on the big, semicircular front porch, with its comfortable swing, blue wicker chairs and table on which were lying a copy of Western Story and a cover-less May issue of Cosmopolitan, the correspondent played with the children under the eye of their plump nurse, Mrs. McCue...
...peace strike has exercised similar restraint and good judgment. A few thoughts given by men like Mr. Darvall and Professor Prall can do immeasurably more good than all the histrionics of the barbarian hordes who have traditionally poured forth from between the pillars of Widener or the porch of Memorial Hall...
...Wisconsin student who walks up a certain street in Madison in summer and early fall, the figure of Dr. Rasmus B. Arderson, age 90, is a family one. He sits in placid silence on the porch of his home and watches with keen eyes the passing parade. There are many who would like to know his thoughts as the daily setting sun throws his rocking chair into shadows. When the Civil War came to an end, he was taking a degree at Luther College in Iowa. In 1866 he embarked on a teaching career as professor of Greek and modern...