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...stated, the situation is simple enough, but there are reasons behind even so simple "a thing as a State's dissatisfaction with the party in power. Responsible for the hope of the Democrats in Indiana, is a story filled like a cinema with incredible wild flashes . . . a searchlight fumbling over an army of marchers in white hoods . . . an airplane with a gilded nose tilting out of a cloud . . . a bed in a poor house, something dead on the bed . . . old checks, thumb-marked, rubber-stamped, checks for enormous sums made out in furtive or in precise or pompous...
...this phrase neglected to recall the crash at Croydon on Christmas Eve, 1925, when an Imperial Airways pilot and his seven passengers died instantly. *Inventor Elmer A. Sperry of the gyroscope compass and commercial gyroscope, began engineering 45 years ago as a lighting man in Chicago; has developed a searchlight for war use, of which the 1,200,000,000-candlepower beam will pick out objects 30,000 ft. high in the night heavens (TIME, March...
Baptist Norris with prodigious ire blasted the Modernists some time ago with a sentence, in scareheads on his Fundamentalist-Baptist Searchlight: "Judas Iscariot, when he betrayed his Lord with 'Hail, Master' on his lips, went and hung himself, but these modern Judases [Liberals] continue to occupy the pulpit and use the name of Christ and live off the money of orthodox people." Dr. Norris reached for a desk drawer. Pious Parson Norris was indicted in 1912 at Fort Worth for perjury and arson in connection with the burning of his church. Disciples did not desert him, rather increased...
Within a few seconds, before ring buoys could be thrown overboard, the submarine had sunk. The searchlight of the steamer began to search the dark waters below-and then suddenly burned out-leaving the sea once again in undisturbed darkness. In six or seven minutes boats were lowered. Three men were found in the water, seamen from the S-51 caught from their bunks and vomitted up through the conning tower by the sea water pouring through the hole...
...searchlight swung about, came to rest on another white mastlet. Up went the Stars and Stripes. Up struck The Star Spangled Banner...