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...amused, the management let him alone until he started painting the floor with shoe polish. At the police station, he pulled plugs out of the signal switchboard, nearly wrecked the teletype machine, dined on cheese, jelly sandwiches and milk, went to sleep, awoke and prowled in the basement coal bin, found a sleeping Negro there, kicked him in the face, refused a bath. At the New York Foundling Hospital, nurses agreed he was the dirtiest child they had ever seen, bathed...
Best that Trustee Armstrong could do in the way of witnesses was to call his own daughter, Mary Grace, who blithely contradicted her classmates, blamed Ward Van De Bogart for putting the flag in the coal bin...
...lunches. Worried lest the big flag catch fire, Miss De Lee took it down, pinned up a small one. Mr. Armstrong, infuriated, tore down the small flag, ordered the big one up again. Next day there was no flag at all and the small one was in the coal bin. "Hang the big flag where I say," stormed the trustee. "Go home and mind your own business," shrilled the teacher. "You're through," cried the trustee...
...fell sound asleep. Star witness was Ward's big brother Edward. "What did your brother do after the plaster was put on his lips?" Edward was asked. "He started studying," replied the witness. Loyal pupils testified that Trustee Armstrong himself had placed the small flag in the coal bin, that they had not recited the oath of allegiance regularly since Miss De Lee left. Tightly clasping an American Beauty rose, Miss De Lee took the stand to deny that she was a Communist, quote from a teachers' syllabus in defense of her practice of admitting pet hens...
...Peacock and trained his guns upon the iniquitous Boxers of Tientsin. For that they gave him the China Medal. In 1904, on the bridge of H. M. S. Dryad he plowed the Indian Ocean from the Strait of Malacca to the Gulf of Aden, trained his guns on Mohammed bin Abdullah, the mad Mullah of Somaliland. For that they made him a Medal & Clasp Commander. In 1914, -15, -16, -17 on the flagship of the British Destroyer Flotilla, he trained his guns on Austrian submarines. For that they gave...