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...until agitated doctors certified that several hunger-striking patients were on the verge of Death, did the Christ Child's director yield. Hereafter the stubborn Polish patients will eat their accustomed bread, soup and potatoes (with occasional meat), four times a day in copious servings...
...ruthless mug of toadlike consistency. Fleshy features of crude clay. Deep ruts ploughed down cheeks as if by cartwheels through heavy mud. Eyes smothered in stout scallops of pulp. Body prehistoric mound, clothing tugged on in folds like armor-clad rhinoceros. Looks neolithic, neckless, materialistic with powerful drive and stubborn pugnacity. Atavistic. Unusually intelligent primate. Nose.like a darning gourd. Expression like an old procuress...
Panic-stricken for fear Leonard would leave her, she talked of a suicide pact, wrote him foolish letters which he foolishly kept, toying with the idea of removing their stubborn obstacle. When one night Leonard made a drunken attack on her husband and unintentionally killed him, they were both charged with murder. Not even after the verdict was pronounced could Julia believe she would really have to die. The hypodermics they gave her as she waited for the gallows dulled her mind but did not change...
This recantation came too late. It gave fresh courage to the timid but stubborn host of Protestants who for more than a year have been struggling for their faith. All last week lay Nazi leaders poured into Berlin bringing sheaves of petitions to the Realmleader. On coarse paper pious peasants had squiggled their names by the thousand. Adolf Hitler's head, if not his teeth, must certainly have ached...
...accordance with our expectations last week, the Dow, Jones average receded from the 96 level where they met with such stubborn resistance, to the upper fringes of the 92 level. The failure of the bulls to show a scoring punch while in a strategic position, gave the bears temporary possession of the ball. We do not believe that the downward movement has spent is force and would defer purchases until prices approach the 90 to 91 level, despite the probability of a moderate raliy. From the technical aspect the market is preparing for a ten-point movement from a mean...