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...naval oil scandals (1921-23), produced a strange courtroom scene. Defendant Fall, seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia, sat in a green Morris chair, wrapped in an automobile robe, his black New Mexican sombrero in his lap. His eyes were stunned, blankly staring at the verdict. Down his white, sunken cheek rolled a teardrop, to be kissed away by his sobbing wife. Other women present moaned and groaned hysterically. Robust cowpunchers and ranchers bent their heads in sorrow for their friend. Oilman Doheny, crimson with rage and chagrin, shook his fist at the bench and screamed: "That damned court-." Mark Thompson...
...Reisner, Davidson, l.e. r.e., Lowe Francisco, Esterly, l.t. r.t., Lane Hageman, Harter, l.g. r.g., Lovering Almy, Hallowell, c. c., Meffert Kidder, r.g. l.g., Waite Harding, Alschuler, r.t. l.t., Curtin Barton, Saltenstall, r.e. l.e., Scheck Cleves, Coburn, q.b. q.b., Peter, Spain Adams, Wells, l.h.b. r.h.b., Clark Walcott, Adler, r.h.b. l.h.b., Cheek Bailey, Pell, Stone, f.b. f.b., Dean...
...dark hallway, she twice shouted: "I am ruined!" She married this man. She blamed the failure of the union, and her husband's death, not on her own connubial shortcomings but on Masons, tobacco and liquor (the Doctor was, significantly, seldom sober). When her daughter's cheek was eaten away with a sore, Carry accused the child of impiety...
...staff of 46. The list of proctors and where they may be found follows: (The stars denote the new appointments.) Apley 1 *R. K. Lamb 1G. Apthoep 12 J. H. Perkins, 2nd 2L. Beck 25 *R. H. Field Sp.L. Beck 22 *M. A. Cheek 1G.B. Claverly 23 *C. McK. Norton 1L Claverly 44 Davidson Sommers 3L. Dana 37 *T. L. M. Newton Drayton 8 *Humphrey Slatter Jr. 1L. Dunster 23 Asst. Dean Henry Chauncey Gore A25 G. G. Benedict 4G. Gore B12 *W. S. Youngman Jr. 1L. Gore C33 F. B. Lee 2L. Gore D24 E. H. Dewey 4G. Gore...
...silver handles hanging. The victor's second caught a smear of blood on a calling card. Doctors and judges agreed the wound was serious enough to end the fight. With the doctor, the vanquished youth moved away, holding up the forceps to keep their weight from his gashed cheek...