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Prosecution Lawyer Clyde R. Hoey, brother-in-law of North Carolina's Governor Oliver Max Gardner and perfect likeness of Author Train's famed "Mr. Tutt," called Defendant Fred Erwin Beal a coward. (Defendant Beal had testified that he was lying on the floor of the union shack when Chief Aderholt was shot...
...Standing is indeed a lovable Mr. Weatherby, but his seduction in the mountain shack is somewhat repulsive. Autumnal passion is not particularly engrossing except to psychologists and sardonic novelists. Unless it be handled with the utmost finesse, is a questionable theme for light comedy, and in Jenny it is presented with a clumsy schoolboy suggestiveness...
...making available a total of $2,000,000, the remainder having come from the Rockefeller Foundation. President Angell believes that this building will be ready for use before the next academic year, despite a considerable delay caused by the refusal of a cobbler, Giacomo Como, to vacate a small shack until his lease had expired. An agreement was reached by which he will house his shop in another place, rent free...
Picturesque Jan Christiaan Smuts was on hand in Cape Town for the Parliamentary fray, last week, having come in from his tiny, iron-roofed shack on the veldt near Pretoria. There he recently completed, in philosophical mood, a work called Holism, setting forth "a philosophy of life reconciling everything within the Universe...
...strange men poking around his farm. They tapped the ground and from down below where you bury people, oil flowed out. Jackson's bronzed face wrinkled in astonishment. His neighbors told him he was rich. That made him grin. He continued to live in his shack and tend his garden. In far-off Washington a ledger under his name began to show mounting figures of royalty oil profits...