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...strike of silk-workers in that municipality was in full swing. The strikers invited Mr. Baldwin to address them in their hall. Chief of Police Tracey vetoed the invitation, closed the hall. Undaunted, Mr. Baldwin-whose headquarters are the American Civil Liberties Union, Manhattan-came to town, marched with speechless strikers to the City Hall. "Go for 'em! Break 'em up!" cried a lusty policeman. "I am reading the Bill of Rights"* was all a striker could utter before a police sergeant shoved him from his perch on the top step and recited the Riot...
Angry antics from the Reds. Bombacci speechless with rage; waves arms, ruffles hair, pulls beard. Silence. Bombacci recovers power of speech: " You stand for barbarism, not civilization. You could not publish a Fascist newspaper in Moscow because there is a law against it? You Fascisti are guilty of having made a comic opera of revolution...
...said that when the drawing for the frontispiece arrived the editors sat in speechless joy for an entire evening in their sanctum. Certainly Mr. Flagg, an honorary editor of the paper, has done a brilliant piece of work that sets a high standard for the drawings. And almost all are good, some very funny in themselves, some admirably illustrating the verses that accompany them. The caricatures are excellent, especially the clever pictorial review of the Blue Bird. The whole number, however, overflows with a good, healthy, fantastic humor. It never descends into profundity, is not boastful as some Yale Game...
...Republican aspirant has so definite a record on the currency question.- (a) Reed helped pass the Sherman law.- (b) Harrison signed the Sherman law: Cong. Record, XXI, 7264, (July 14, 1890).- (c) McKinley has "Straddled" and is "straddling": Nation, LXII, 227.- (d) Allison has "a bad record and is speechless now": Harper's, XL, 266.- (3) Cleveland is a most consistent civil service reformer: Nation, LXII, 227.- (a) Began the abolition of the spoils system in 1885: Platforms and Promises by W. D. Foulke.- (b) He has continued his original policy.- (c) Received the support of independent civil service reformers...
...stopped, and hurriedly drank three glasses of sherry (I have given up the best pale, since Sanglier began to call so often), and rushed out, leaving me speechless. Class-Day eve, and Tom in that condition...