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...defend a woman, this character knocks a policeman down in the first scene, unwittingly killing him. He is jailed for five years, and spends the rest of the play's nine scenes fleeing his jailers and his destiny. He evades the jailers but cannot dodge himself; in the final scene he gives himself up to the pursuers to prevent a clergyman from shielding him by telling a lie. He has been at various times in the piece a murderer, a thief, a beggar, but throughout a gentleman. His finer nature traps...
...election pledge is a sacred thing to me," writes the Mayor of Chicago, referring to that resolution to defend the youth of Chicago from the propaganda of King George which helped Mr. Thompson to win his present exalted position. It is satisfying to see that he is fully as good as his word, if not better. He is not satisfied with attacking the superintendent of schools, who seems to be practically a member of the British Secret Service but he has appointed Mr. U. J. Hermann, a well known sportsman, to search every history book in the public library...
...been suggested that the games themselves have been framed. Now for the first time in history it engages in a gridiron struggle with another collegiate journal as its opponent. With no mountains on which to practice for training, without even a New Hampshire hill, the CRIMSON, intends to defend its athletic honor. Its locate has been termed effects. The Hanover press representatives undoubtedly are superior in the arts of the boy scout and campfire girl. Nevertheless even the urbanite is not bereft of all native cunning. The CRIMSON makes no promises and, toward off possible future recriminations...
...vacation in the Canadian Rockies near Banff, Alberta. Upon the screen came three dark, fuzzy objects, moving about in undergrowth many rods away. The largest object struck an attitude of attention and started to approach the camera. Rushing rapidly, it soon proved to be a mother grizzly, charging to defend her whimpering cubs. She charged far enough for Senator Shipstead's friends to see how an angry she-bear looks at 10 paces. Senator Shipstead's friends wondered how Senator Shipstead looked at the other end of those 10 paces...
...denied that France in any way wishes to associate herself with any movement designed to defend the economic interests of Europe against the U. S. But the Independance Beige, Brussels newspaper, declared that Germany considers U. S. opposition to reciprocal trade treaties "audacious and unjustified," while Britain backs France, as do other powers, who are subjected to the U. S. tariff and "its manifold surprises...