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...gallows, Brandt was unrepentant. He began a farewell speech. "It is no shame to stand on this scaffold. I served my fatherland as others before me . . ." He was still talking when the black hood dropped over his face...
Many of the accounts of Emmet's life have been lost; others have only recently turned up. What the records show seems chiefly pathetic to readers schooled in the calculating and brilliant revolutionary techniques of Marx and Lenin. Unlike those men, Robert Emmet lived, from boyhood to scaffold, in a world of chivalrous, humanitarian dreams-a lovable but fatal hallucination which Author Landreth indignantly blames on Emmet's father, a conventional Protestant doctor of English extraction who didn't let little Robert air his views when grownups were conversing. After several years at Dublin's Trinity...
Falls From Scaffold...
...hospital-to-hero episode began about seven years ago when Norris, never much of an athlete, plummeted from a 30-foot chimney scaffold on to a brick carrier's hod, injuring his left heel. Repeated attempts to heal it disclosed a dislocated...
...going to be around after we get through with the first couple of floors," said Moravec yesterday. A few more weeks of balancing masonry on a scaffold is going to make relaxing with the heaviest book seem easy in the fall he predicted...