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...night the U. S. delegation's office was entered, Delegate Gibson's desk was ransacked and Senator Swanson's locked briefcase was slit open, nothing taken. This secret the U. S. delegation kept until, on a subsequent night last week, the breaking and entering was repeated (again no takings). Peace Man Gibson reported to the police...
...block of wood for his pillow. At 2 a. m. he would arise, pray until 5 a. m., then go to Dublin's Gardiner Street Church to make the Stations of the Cross. Because he wore a long overcoat, other worshippers did not notice that he had slit the knees of his trousers the better to abrade his flesh...
...truck back into the road. By this time the deputies were on the run. Dr. Malcolm, who tarried longer than the rest, lost his hat, brief case and suit case, had the gas line of his car broken, the radiator filled with mud, the windows smashed, the tires slit with pitchforks. He refused to get out of the car, was pushed in it to Wilton Junction. From there he scurried to Iowa City and soon had his appeal for aid telephoned to Governor Dan Turner in Washington...
...week, hundreds of thousands of Jews in Manhattan freed themselves from mundane cares, piously to pass the Jewish time of self-examination. God was balancing His books, which would be closed on the Day of Atonement. But in the teeming lower East Side one family sat in sorrow. They slit their garments. No chair or sofa would they sit on: only rough boxes. They were "sitting shivah"-mourning a dead daughter...
...Watson's Bay, Australia, one Charles Messenger caught a shark, slit its belly, found a lady's hand bag containing a wrist watch. Inscription on the wrist watch: "Yours till death. Bill...