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Apparently Icelanders were country bumpkins to sophisticated medieval Norwegians. Without realizing what he was doing, Ljot allied himself with old Gunnar's enemies, could not visit his sweetheart at Vadin. They poisoned his mind against her. until in the shameful abandon of defeat he made up a song slandering her. Vigdis had been willing to marry him until she heard" it. When she agreed to a last meeting, turned Ljot away forever, he raped her and fled. She bore his child. Gunnar's enemies taunted him with his disgrace, killed him and burned his house...
...Oklahoma's first two Senators in 1907, "Tom" Gore once remarked in the course of a debate on inflation: ''If cheap money is what the country needs, why don't we repeal the laws against counterfeiting?" Last week the white-thatched old statesman acknowledged defeat thus: ''The law of evolution is adapt or die, and I didn't adapt...
...Lords: ¶ Subjected the present National Government to its first defeat in the House of Lords by adopting, 32-to-29, a trivial amendment to the Education Bill opposed by His Majesty's Government but sponsored by the Most Reverend Father Cosmo Gordon Lang. His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England...
...debentures, petitioned the Supreme Court of Massachusetts to appoint for its safekeeping a New York trustee. They fought the claims brought by the creditors of International Match and Swedish Match, which alone remained in business, against the dubious assets of Kreuger & Toll. When it appeared that Swedish law might defeat them, they persuaded the other two groups to participate in extra-legal negotiations...
Last week a hot sun at Hurlingham blazed on the tenth subsequent U. S. v. England polo game, second in the fifth post-War series. In the first game fortnight ago, hard-riding Hesketh Hughes had led England to glorious defeat, 9 goals to 10. Last week Hughes scored the first goal of what British experts later called the most exciting polo game ever played on British soil. Thereafter, the U. S.'s lanky back, Winston Guest, kept Hughes bottled up, while Stewart Iglehart and Michael Phipps fed the ball to Eric Pedley at No. 1. In the last...