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...time of Flagg's conception . . . and when he first saw daylight a hurricane, which happened to be in progress at the moment, swept Flagg through a couple of barn doors. He was, however, blown back into his crib with the mark of fair-weather defeat writ all over his pan and not a tear could wash out a feature of it. Result-cut in TIME. To gaze at this conceited cookie-cutter countenance takes the courage and strength of a Daniel to bear up under the shock. Just what does this reputed connoisseur of female pulchritude know about real...
...street fight, and in the interests of peace it must be stopped. There was the rumble of caissons over the cobbles, the dull roar of cannon, the outcries of a dispersing crowd, and Napoleon had ordered his first artillery into action. From that time on his name was writ large on the map of Europe. The Alps, Italy, Egypt, Marengo, and the little figure came out of the mists of Revolution into the garish sunlight of Empire...
Somewhere in the Holy Writ an account is given of a man who had one little ewe lamb and some miserable scoundrel came and snatched it away from him. The fair city of Augusta had one little ewe lamb and TIME has come and snatched it away from her. The lamb was Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, who has visited the Bon Air for the past 20 years every spring, who is an honorary member of our Bar Association, who preaches to us every time he comes here, who is our chiefest drawing card and of social and educational value...
Bertha Stott left Detroit, went to Canada, remained there three weeks until a writ was issued for her brother Ernest in Ontario. Last week she returned and went to jail. A few hours later she was in hysterics. She had to be taken to a hospital, where police and nurses guarded her watchfully. Judge Ferguson said he might have her examined by a psychiatrist...
...bribe any public official?" Replied Dr. Doyle: "No." Mr. Seabury and the Republican Committeemen were astonished by this answer, suspected Horse Doctor Doyle of committing perjury. Though the committee voted he was still in contempt, "Doc" Doyle's lawyers got him out of jail on a writ of habeas corpus...