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Parker warned Wellman that any future comments in that vein would be taken as contempt of court. Thereafter, Wellman put forward the same question to each prosecution witness, but said nothing when Parker excluded...
...person," says Wall Street Lawyer Lyman Tondel Jr., a Republican, "he has an appalling lack of understanding of the problems of most people, particularly the man who is hit by forces beyond his control." Some worry that beneath his attractive exterior and easygoing manner is a deep, though untapped, vein of authoritarianism. Negro Leader James Farmer said that Goldwater Youth marchers reminded him of the Hitler Jugend, and a German banker in Munich recently told an American acquaintance, "If we give you four or five years, you'll start putting on brown shirts...
...ordered, Richard puts on a brief weeping fit. And on the eve of battle he sits caressing his deformed leg with his deformed hand. Vocally, Watson does laudably on the whole, though he should not throw away such a crucial line as "I'm not in a giving vein today...
...Newport Casino clothed in gorgeous hues of canary yellow and powder blue instead of the traditional white. Even when he quit gagging, his audience sometimes kept on laughing. Once, after his usual quota of jokes, he told his listeners that he wanted to discuss education in a serious, nonpolitical vein. The audience roared, and Pierre later wondered exasperatedly, "What was so funny about that...
Particularly the penthouse vein...