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...whole affair at Seattle has the macabre air of the trial of the knave of hearts in Alice's Wonderland. Dr. Allen invents interpretations; Miss Thompson and Mr. Smith sit in the Jury Box, busily scribbling "due process" on their slates; and the rest of the press shout "off with their heads." But while Alice's dream of the knave's trial vanished, we may find the nightmare of the University of Washington spreading to legislators and trustees all over the country...
...books (forbidden in the orthodox cheder), and argued Zionism, socialism and anarchism with his friends. The Weizmann home was almost always in an uproar. "They've got to be fed," Chaim's mother would cry from the kitchen, "or they won't have the strength to shout...
Finally, what if the Government proves its case and the defendants are convicted? Why give them a boost towards undeserved martyrdom? The Communists are all too ready to shout "Cossack" as it is. There is no need for the New York Police Department to be their straight...
...president of Dallas' Rio Grande National Life Insurance Co. gave out an exuberant shout. "This is a great world," cried Robert Baxter, "and the U.S. is the greatest country in the world-and Texas is the greatest state in the U.S. and Dallas is the greatest city in Texas and the Rio Grande is the greatest insurance company in Dallas." This bit of bragging, down to the last note in its descending scale, was a fairly faithful expression of the exuberance and confidence of businessmen in 1948. They thought that the U.S. had plenty to brag about...
Free Mooney. Whimsical Johnny Bruce, an editor who never finds it necessary to shout or swear at his staff, was weaned on the newspaper lore of his town. At nine, the year after the 1906 earthquake, he hawked the Bulletin in San Francisco's Mission district...