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...dining hall to have a fish supper. They were then returned to their cells for a regular head count. At 6 p.m., the operations officer of the penitentiary picked up his microphone and yelled, "The yard!" The cell doors opened, and the prisoners moved out into the enclosed yard???about the size of two football fields. The men looked like sailors: they were wearing dark blue denim dungarees and light blue denim shirts...
...Socialist was about 60,000.) Rivals accused him of running not a campaign but a publishing racket. He replied that he had two bank accounts with $108.74 in one and $20.68 in the other, that his living and his cottage in Pasadena?with two fig trees in its door-yard???were only made secure by his more practical wife, Mary Craig Sinclair...
...still tall and lean and lank, but dried and greyed by the years. A widower with six children, he resides in a magnificent marble house just north of the Connecticut Ave. bridge. The family home in Provo has long since stood shuttered and vacant, grass tall in its yard??? supposedly a symbol of the Senator's personal sacrifice in public service. His high poke collar with its white linen tie has given way to a lower softer neckdress, but there has been no relaxation in the grim stiff Smoot personality. From his indefatigability has sprung the verb to smoot...
...Republicans ?regular and insurgent?making the galleries laugh. When a Republican rose in reply, and there seemed any possibility of a successful counter attack, Caraway of Arkansas interposed. He wandered from seat to seat, with his hands in his pockets, or walked like a monk in the monastery yard??? head bowed, hands held before him? stopping only to drawl an apt, ironical remark. In the third row, beside the aisle, handling his books and papers, the downright Robinson, Democratic leader, maintained a watchful eye on the course of legislation, now and then casting in a tart remark or direction...
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