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...even of America." As the other M.P.s spoke, Mike Pearson alternately twirled his horn-rimmed glasses and sprawled in his seat with hands in his pockets. He made no immediate reply to his critics. For the time being, at least, he evidently intended to stand by his rule-of-thumb for Canadian action. The rule: yes, if it is a big war; no-or maybe-if, by Mike Pearson's definition, it is a small...
...Rule of Thumb. In Cairo, Egypt, after listening to the complaint of Mrs. Zeinab Hassanein Eddine, 22, that her husband had slapped her, Judge Sheikh Mahmud Mikawi granted a divorce, ruled that although a husband may beat his wife with a cane "no thicker than a finger," he must not strike her on the face, which "reflects the beauty of woman...
...asks Frankie why he is at home, just lying on his crumpled, ratty bed, he gets an unforgettable cry of anguish masked in a snarl: "Because I got a hole in my shirt and my brother's wearin' my underwear and my mother's got her thumb in some slob's soup . . . And you're not here because you want to help us . . . You're scared to death of us . . . you shake in your pants every time you pass us on the street." Without hokum, without false sentiment or a spurious stiff upper...
...least of all an old French infantryman who has given the 30 best years of his life to his country. Gaston Le Torch had suffered enough wounds to rate a decent pension, was married to a sensible, loving wife who honored him for a missing eye and a severed thumb, and had philosophically tucked his handful of medals into an old cigar box. With nothing else to occupy him after World War I, Gaston began, like many another retired hero, to run down his family's history. Thus he discovered his family's dishonor...
...Formerly called "Little Jack," sawed-off (5 ft. 4 in.) Jake was retagged by Hearst newsmen shortly after the death of his brother, Harry ("Greasy Thumb") Guzik, a pimp; originally nicknamed for his habit of wetting his thumb while peeling bills off a horse-choking bankroll...