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Last Love was also first love for Miss Osyth, music teacher. She was regarded as an angel by her pupil, Minnie (Minnie's universe was peopled with angels and fiends); but when, one night, a handsome, dark apostate came wounded to her door, she hailed her lord, she washed his wound, fell from her starched Paradise into heavenly, purgatory. In short, she let him kiss her. Called away by the death of one of her uncles, she came back to find him kissing Minnie...
...judges, the contestants, and the audience were forced to grope their way in the dark from the top floor of the building only to find the door locked. After much prying and pushing the door still remained firm and as the janitor was not to be found the group had to use a window as an exit...
...fair no longer. Stew Stewa falls in love with another lady. Laca calls on the stepmother. He would marry the girl himself, he says, but damme, he cannot stomach the child. Whereupon the stepmother, on a black winter's night, drugs Jenufa, steals out hugger-mugger into the dark and drowns the bastard in an icy brook. On the day of the marriage feast, the ice thaws, peasants discover a disfigured bundle in the sedge. Step-mother is led off to jail, but iron bars make no cage for her. Her daughter is an Honest Woman...
...Museum, the National Museum of Jerusalem. His thoughts are in the Holy Land. Long has he cherished in his brain the images of the kings and prophets of his people in the old time: Absalom's body, slim as a spear, twisting from the bough on which his dark hair tangled; Moses listening rapt to the voice of God. Unlike that nameless artist who exhibited a blank canvas, declaring that it showed the Israelites Crossing the Red Sea- the Sea pushed back, the Israelites just passed over, the Egyptians not yet come up-Mr. Pann of Jerusalem paints...
Patrolman Patrick Powers, of Madison, Wis., found a man on his back porch at midnight. The man ran; Patrolman Powers cried, "Halt!", took a shot in the dark, killed Peter M. Posepny, Wisconsin University undergraduate. A jury acquitted Patrolman Powers of murder. Thereupon, the Daily Cardinal, Wisconsin undergraduate paper, published an editorial allegedly written by one Wesley Dunlap, of Salt Lake City. "We should like to see the police force tremble in its boots at the approach of a student. We should like to see terror thrown into their hearts when the word 'student' is mentioned...