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Norfolk was more than ready for them. Its two star debaters, Murdo the Robber and Bill the Bad Check Passer, had spent weeks getting ready for the occasion. They had studied in the library, written to Washington and the American Medical Association, pored over reams of statistics and dozens of reports. Like Oxford, Norfolk had an honorable record to uphold. In 16 years of "intercollegiate" debating, it had taken on such teams as Harvard, Princeton and M.I.T. Its score: 34 victories, 4 draws, only 14 defeats...
...Lavender Hill Mob shows Alec Guinness at his comical best as a bank robber. At the Exeter...
Incidentally, the robber was an ex-marine sharpshooter. So is my brother...
Back in civilian life, the Pinkertons prospered. Every kind of criminal, from Western train robber to international jewel thief, fell before them. In 1886, they solved a New Orleans murder case in which the main clue was an obscure African poison injected from a hollow needle into the leg of a pretty girl. In the '20s, they caught a bigamist who gave as his reason for burning his second wife the indisputable fact that "it is hard for a man to support two wives...
...portralt of Cowperwood as a typical "Robber Baron" partly fails, according to Matthiessen, as a result of the same flaw in the writer's attitude which Paul Elmer More later stiffly denied as "an oscillation between a theory of evolution which sees no progress save the survival of the rapaciously strong and a humanitarian feeling of solidarity with the masses who are exploited in the process...