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...hours later the patrolman's attention was arrested by a crimson puddle of blood that spread its darkening stain over the flagstones at No. 346 West 41st St. A hundred feet from the corner the Negro lay in the gutter with two bullet holes in his body. Patrolman Meehan glanced casually at the black, distorted face, and then stepped to the telephone to inform his captain that the person known to the police as Louis Phal, and to the public as Battling Siki, once light- heavyweight champion of the world, had been shot to death...
...knowing it to be a particular pet of mine, a friend (let us call him Peter Perkins, for short) came over to me and expostulated. He accused you gentlemen, the editors, of "throwing mud at our President." He admitted that it was subtle stuff-mud that did not stain your hands, but which made the President to look foolish...
...with him. Though circumstances?the increasing number of his sore throats, his intentness on his work, his need of money?kept them much apart, Keats' love for Fanny Brawne grew until it absorbed his life. One night, he rode on a stagecoach without his greatcoat, coughed a bright stain into his bedsheets. "I know the color of that blood," he said...
Plant Sprays.. Copper hydroxide used as a spray is 15 times more effective as a fungicide than Bordeaux mixture commonly used on plants, and moreover leaves no stain. It may be the active ingredient of Bordeaux mixture.-Dr. Henry D. Hooker, University of Missouri...
...expected something to happen and happen it did. Ever since the murder of Major Robert W. Imbrie, U. S. Vice Consul at Teheran, Persian capital (TIME, July 28), . the populace had been filled with fearful forebodings. The murder, which was called by the Setareh Iran, Teheran journal, a "bloody stain on a page of glorious history," was responsible, apart from its international complexion, for a proclamation of martial law, the resignations of Premier Reza Khan's colleagues, a plethora of arrests. Persians knew someone must die for a foul crime...