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Archie Palmer popped into the act. He wanted the jurors polled one by one; the word "guilty" resounded 24 times through the courtroom. He wanted sentence deferred for a month. Two days earlier, in his 130-minute summation, corny Counsel Palmer had invoked St. Matthew ("Judge not, that ye be not judged"), Omar Khayyam ("The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on"), Abraham Lincoln, the golden rule and George Washington Carver. Now he was abusing Shakespeare: "They've got their pound of flesh," he trumpeted. "Do they want the blood with...
...isolation the island has been as unheedful of tourists as it has been unspoiled. It has an atmosphere as singularly its own as the soft-spoken mixture of Irish brogue and Scottish burr heard in the outports where the toast is likely to be "I bows taward ye." In its quiet, trim little seaside hamlets, with their gaudy-hued houses and limed picket fences, the sightseeing visitor can get a thrill of discovery to match the sportsman's strike in the Humber's pools...
...English country house around the turn of the century and sets them to betraying to one another their inexhaustible human capacity for loyalty and treachery, frankness and cant, courage and cowardice. Its theme, painfully learned by all concerned, is the old, grim and simple text: "Judge not, that ye be not judged...
...telling him that he was through. Like most daily newsmen, he thought a church editor was farther away from the news than any real journalist should ever get. For several days Stewart groused about his lot. Then he got an idea from St. Matthew ("I was a stranger, and ye took me in") for a new kind of church column: he decided to visit a different church every Sunday as an unannounced stranger, and tell Press readers about the reception...
Wadsworth, who had been out of town for some years before his inauguration in 1725, remarked the valedictory exercises with interest. "I was Informed also that ye President & Fellows should sit with their Hats on when Valedictories are pronounced," he wrote. Early in the senior year, apparently, the Class got together to pick someone to deliver the valedictory. By 1750, there had been added more class officers, a dinner, and a sermon, as well as the Latin oration. In 1743, at an election meeting, several seniors were "found guilty of drinking prohibited Liquors," and were fined...