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Please God. Almost in one breath Runyon could bid the world be gay ("This [is] the best show in town") and sonorously reproach its gaiety ("There were men . . . and women . . . standing chin-deep in . . . this bloody trial and giving some offense to high Heaven, it seems to me, by their very presence"). When nine-year-old Lorraine Snyder enters the courtroom, Runyon deftly massages the hearts of a million mothers ("She was, please God . . . a fleeting little shadow . . . and she stood looking bravely into [Justice Scudder's] eyes, the saddest, the most tragic little figure, my friends, ever viewed...
Bowland called on Sheriff Jim Moreland of Catoosa County. The sheriff stroked his chin and said: "I'm just as scared of the Ku Klux Klan as you are." He advised Bowland to conduct himself in a manner more pleasing to the Klan...
...slim, with steely blue eyes and commanding voice. Actually his voice is soft, his eyes watery. A World War I wound clipped off a chunk of his jaw, bent his features into a permanent smile. Among the Arabs he is known as Abu Huneik (Father of the Little Chin...
...late Huey's brother sounded almost as good as the Kingfish himself. What was more, Huey's 29-year-old son Russell was stumping the state for Uncle Earl, and Russell looked just like the Kingfish, right down to his curly hair, pudgy nose and slack chin. It was like old times...
...CHIN...