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...three stalwart soldiers. There was Kamenev, Acting Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, sitting with his beautiful wife. Side by side sat Krassikov, President of the Supreme Court; Kursky, Commissioner of Justice; Minjiniki Elyava, Head of the Trans-Caucasian Federation; Karl Redek, famed diplomat; another arch-devil, Bela Kun, quondam Red Dictator of Hungary. In the dock a small man, quite bald, about 45, dressed in a cheap double-breasted grey sack suit and a thin black tie. His face was reminiscent of a youthful Napoleon, but "cadaverous and drawn with deep shadows under the eyes...
Adolph Ochs was born in Cincinnati in 1858, the son of a Bavarian Jew. He began his newspaper career as a newsboy. He advanced to printer's devil. He served on various Kentucky and Tennessee papers as a printer's apprentice, as an assistant foreman, as a subscription solicitor, as a reporter, as a job-printer, as an assistant business manager. He went to Chattanooga to help found the Daily Dispatch. It failed and was sold to the Chattanooga Times. That failed, and Ochs, with nothing at all, bought it. At that time he was just...
...every small-town way. Then up turns Gareth Johns, curly-headed, 17, and articulate. She enfolds him in her ample eroticism, he in his hunger for the horizon. Off they go together to the everlasting hurt of Lennie Colman, Gareth's tragic schoolmarm. Village Parcae squawk the devil's chorus...
Nevertheless, six U. S. warships were sent to Honduran waters, 300 bluejackets and "devil dogs" were landed...
...Holy Virgin, we propose never to adopt any manner of dress displeasing to Thee. This means that upon every occasion, even when the devil tempts us, and suggests we pass the limits of holy modesty, we will remember our promise to Thee...