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Crook & Gunman. To the favorable and the unfavorable testimony, the Marshal showed the same stoic indifference. But two witnesses jolted the old man out of his apathy. Into a booing, hissing court, under heavy escort, came two of France's most hated men : suave Count Fernand de Brinon, former Vichy ambassador to Ger man-occupied Paris, and defiant Joseph Darnand, once head of Vichy's hated militia. The court had called them despite the refusal of Prosecutor Andrá Mornet to hear the evidence of "a crook and a gunman...
Persons and Places, by George Santayana, is the famed philosopher's unfinished autobiography. It tells of his boyhood in Spain and the tragic loneliness of his Spanish family in alien Boston, with a very brief account of his years at Harvard-a stoic recital of intellectual hardships written with epicurean felicity...
Rome established the primacy of law, created a thriving economy, spread the advantages of universal citizenship from Gibraltar to the Crimea, and made the family the rock of civil life. Yet the law was overthrown by barbarians, the international Roman economy succumbed to a renewed provincialism, and the old Stoic families took to licentiousness and ceased to reproduce themselves...
...Stoic. In Trenton, N.J., Street Cleaner Edward Ware, hard at work, found an envelope stuffed with $4,945 in endorsed checks and negotiable securities, stuck it in his pocket, kept on with his work, shortly encountered police, threw them the envelope, went on sweeping...
...sight. This is far from the case. We are just getting well started. The great battles lie ahead. We have yet to be proven in the agony of enduring heavy casualties, as well as the reverses which are inevitable in war. What we need now is a stoic determination to overwhelm the enemy, cost what...