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With the ascendancy of the Medicis, Nicolo lost his job, was accused of plotting against the new rulers, banished to his poverty-stricken country villa. Here he was reduced to the boorish society of the pot-house-backgammon and trie trac with butcher and furnace-makers replaced learned converse with the intellectuals of Florence. Though he filled much of his time with wine, women, and oaths, he was forced out of sheer boredom to pore long hours over his beloved Latin-history, comedy, philosophy (translated from the Greek)-and set down his own political philosophy (The Prince, The Discourses...
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...killer of the deer was Chief of Police H. M. Haight of Park Ridge, Ill. (suburb of Chicago). He took it to a butcher, had it dressed, ate it with his friends. Last week he was called before Police Magistrate Homer Byrd, who told him: "I have been your friend for years. I did not want to try this case. . . . You insisted I pass judgment. Well, I will fine you $75 and costs and tell you that if there is anything more unsportsmanlike than what you did I don't know of it. To walk up and shoot...
...Sharon, Pa., Feb. 14.-Entering a crowded room at Mine No. 5 school between Mercer and Grove City, at 2 p.m. today, Mrs. Jack McCall, aged 30, wife of a coal miner, pulled a butcher knife from beneath her long coat and drew it across the throat of her 7-year-old son, Lawrence, severing the boy's jugular vein and causing his death in a few moments...
...before the bands of Rotarians and Kiwanians with H. L. Mencken tied to a chariot wheel descend on the colleges to butcher the decadent inhabitants, it is only fair that the people be allowed, in the correct tradition, to stage some orgies. Unfortunately there exists the anomaly that the clerical calumniators who would naturally on such occasions be fed to other than literary lions, are keeping, the projected revellers tightly strapped to the stake. The materials for Bacchanalia cannot be obtained in sufficient amount, and the police would not allow Saturnalia. Before the destruction finally comes, then, the authorities must...