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Jewesses no less than Jews were barred from their classes by the bullying Christians. Many a Jewess wept openly, lamented loudly. Several Jews, goaded, but outnumbered, sought to dash rabbit-like in at an unguarded classroom door. Chased, they were collared, hoisted by trouser-seats, ejected from the University buildings. Two professors who sought to rescue them were pummeled, severely bruised...
...Minnie Levine. Out came Mrs. Levine with a pair of scissors. Mr. Berardi ground them for her on his scissors-grinder as expertly as he could. Mrs. Levine eyed the result, her lips in a purse of doubt. Suddenly she seized Mr. Berardi by his baggy trousers. Snip! Before you could say "Spaghetti" she had sliced a gaping moon out of one trouser, right at the knee. Ventilated, humilitated Mr. Berardi rushed to court...
...along the prison walls to prevent violence. Radio station WSOM in Manhattan was hooked up ready for the broadcasting of the execution by the Eugene V. Debs Memorial Radio Fund. In adjoining death cells Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Celestino Madeiros? were waiting for a man to slit their trouser legs, make them ready for metal strips through which would pass a current of electricity...
Minutes passed. Dessert was passing in under the white mustache. Then suddenly the doorman of the Savoy snapped to attention as Mr. Lloyd George's coat passed over the threshold, a hat jammed down over the collar, two shabby trouser legs oscillating beneath...
...ever appeared in the Tombs court on a single complaint. What could the judge do with them? All were sobered: They would crowd the jail. The workhouse would take them only if they were to stay 10 days. The judge had lights arranged and examined 133 rough necks, 266 trouser pockets. Those with dirty necks and no money for a bath, he sent to the workhouse. Others he freed. Historians recalled that not 100 years ago there were laws against owning bathtubs but no laws against taking a drink...