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...Court, where he eloquently protested against "a cruel experiment upon these orphans to shut them up and make them the victims of a philosophical speculation. ... If the courts should set this will aside ... it would be the crowning mercy of my professional life!" Unimpressed, the Court unanimously upheld the whim of the late Stephen Girard...
...Britannia ruled the waves, but the Britons who made that rule possible were in truth not much better than slaves. Shanghaied by a pressgang, crammed into noisome quarters, half-starved on verminous victuals, paid a pittance, rarely allowed shore liberty, liable to a flogging at an officer's whim, condemned to this servitude for years on end, a British tar's lot was not a happy one. "To be flogged was to be tortured. The first stroke laid on by a brawny boatswain's mate, as hard as he could at the full length...
...Excoriating the German Government of today for ''crushing" not only Jews but also Protestants, Catholics and whomever else is not quick to toe the Hitler-Goring-Goeb- bels-Streicher-Rosenberg line, Mr. Mc-Donald bitterly concludes that in Germany what now passes for "law" is merely the "whim" of German bigwigs defying world public opinion beneath the swastika...
Marjorie Post inherited her father's energy along with his millions. A tall, handsome woman of 52 with a startling snow-white streak in her otherwise darkish hair, she is possessed of a whim of iron. Her first husband was Edward B. Close, whom she divorced...
...knowledge, the preparation, the thought even an important commercial contract merits and receives. God made marriage an indissoluble contract, Christ made it a sacrament, the world today has made it a plaything of passion, an accompaniment of sex, a scrap of paper to be torn up at the whim of the participants...