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Stiff-faced and stoical was a crowd clustered about the entrance of the Old Town Coal Company's mine at McAlester, Okla. last week. Out of the mine were carried 60 bodies. Three were unconscious, overcome by afterdamp (carbon monoxide) which had followed a muffled explosion below. The rest, wrapped in burlap to conceal the charred mutilation or gas-choked contortions of their faces, were dead. Of them, 34 were Mexicans, 15 were Negroes. The bodies were exhibited in improvised morgues. Many were unidentifiable. One was identified by a broken...
...four prisoners, amid hysterical excitement in the court, calmly put their hands into the hat and withdrew their ballot, stoical resignation imprinted upon their features. Twenty-eight-year-old Alfredo Jauregui, youngest of the quartet, blanched-he drew the black ballot. Fiercely protesting his innocence, he called upon the court to hasten his execution by a firing squad, saying that he would not appeal...
...Legend was wrong, said the Monthly, in a few particulars. Mr. Brett did not break his leg. Mr. Brett said nothing about dying for dear old Rutgers. It was the late Frank Kingsley Grant, '95, whose leg was broken in the Princeton game of 1891.* Mr. Grant was stoical. Calling for a cigaret before they carried him from the field, he simply said: "I'd die to win this game...
Senator George William Norris, who, more than anyone else, may be called leader of insurgent Republicans, has grown stoical during his 13 years of high office. Inirritable Mr. Norris philosophically decided at the close of the last Congress that the details involved with the chairmanship of the Senate Agriculture Committee were irritating and asked to be relieved of that responsibility, though he would continue as a member. In all probability he will be succeeded by Senator McNary, author of the wrecked and wrecking farm relief bill...
...earliest days, there was inter-Christian hatred. Theologians dis agreed. An immense influence upon the Catholic Church was the stoical Law of Nature derived from Greek philosophers: "The hostility of that Church to eugenics is ... based on the principle that it is contrary to the Law of Nature to forbid anyone, however diseased physically and morally, to marry and have children...