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...figures of Generals Lee, Jackson and their armies on Stone Mountain was canceled, how he pounded his models into bits with a hammer, secretly, and fled the state, how he was billed through four states, pursued, arrested in North Carolina on charges of malicious mischief, released on a writ of habeas corpus, has been told (TIME, Mar. 2, Mar. 9). Last week, Borglum little relaxed his activity...
...hours later, by means of a writ of habeas corpus, he got his release, started for Manhattan. Tucker had vanished...
...left his guests in a sitting room and ascended three floors to his bedroom-once he stripped naked-closed the door in the presence of a witness who stood guard while down below three thought tests were writ- ten out and whispered around. The wizard descended. Walter Lippmann, editorial writer on the New York World, thought of "Lord Curzon in the Foreign Office last January." Houdini failed to receive the thought...
...Senator is fond of the Scriptures, devoted to the Holy Writ; and let me say to him he reminds me of a passage, as I consider him in connection with his minority criticisms: 'Deal gently, for my sake, with the young man Absalom...
...according to Holy Writ, more divine effort is expended upon one lost sheep and more joy is attendant upon its recovery than upon ninety and nine in the fold, just so does it become necessary for the organized Church Militant to spend more time and trouble upon one pronounced heretic than upon ninety and nine who may be heretics but who, for one reason or another, have never raised the issue...