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...mentions the White House. Down front is Ohio's ponderously handsome Willis. Across the aisle are ruddy Robinson of Arkansas and Missouri's smoldering Reed. Right next to Senator Borah is the thin-lipped Utopian from Nebraska, Senator Norris, whose devotion to Logic is only one or two brain-cell-power less than Senator Borah's. All these candidates were to receive the Borah questionnaire, and perhaps Vice President Dawes as well...
...characteristic of the book, moreover, that may ideas are impressed on the perhaps forever, because the author invokes a lasting image for us by writing; for example: "Such a cell is an individual soldier of the army, having his proper place in the company of his fellows-." For Professor Hill is of those rare and fortunate men who having something worth while to say, can say it as well as it could be said...
...prison that they petitioned to have him set free at once without waiting for the test, required by law, to see if he was sane enough to be at large. Refusal of this petition did not daunt Mr. Remus. He received kisses and congratulations from the jurors in his cell and hysterically pledged the rest of his life to "stifling the insult which is upon our statutes known as the National Prohibition...
...priest and three Roman Catholic youths sat in a cell in Mexico City, last week, solemnly munching a breakfast of eggs fried with red and green peppers, coarse bread, and steaming coffee. As the last morsels disappeared their jailer entered. He had waited until after breakfast, he said, so as not to spoil the young men's appetites. Since they had breakfasted, however, it became his duty to inform all four that they would be led out into the prison garden later that morning, and stood up one by one before a firing squad...
...stranger visited Dundee in his prison cell. He told Dundee that he must not despair; that the world was large; that there were many places where Dundee might go and start anew. Dundee took heart. When the prison doors opened, he traveled far away and commenced to build in earnest...