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...most unmanageable of the lot. Despite his years at Harrow and at Cambridge, Byron never quite learned what was cricket and what was not. If many of his acts had been committed by anyone other than a poet, that person would long ago have found himself in the dock of the historians' Old Bailey, and the unanimous verdict of those moralists would have condemned him to everlasting infamy as a cad. Even as it is, his biography is not a pretty tale, but it has the sort of satanic interest which always clings to the "roses and raptures of vice...
...affirmative speech of Herman Dock, Dartmouth '36, was largely composed of a mass of detail to support the point of the inability of congress to regulate utility companies under the present setup...
...Herman Dock '36, of Narragansett, Rhode Island, and Arthur Ekirch '37, of White Plains, New York, will represent the Green over...
...watched the Lindberghs run to ground like rabbits by the British Press. At Liverpool waited some 100 British newshawks and a score from the continent, ready with tugs, speedboats, airplanes and racing automobiles to circumvent any Lindbergh attempt to escape from their questions and cameras. Held back at the dock by police, they gave chase in automobiles, were balked when their prey holed up in a Liverpool hotel. Angrily they haunched down in the lobby, prepared to pounce at the first opportunity...
...calm, misty evening the S. S. American Importer arrived at Liverpool, stood off the entrance to the Mersey River all night. Next morning it was raining. The dock was jampacked with newshawks, cameramen, workers, who thought they glimpsed the Lindberghs on deck, with Jon in his mother's arms. A tug warped the ship into its berth. A platoon of muttering bobbies carved a lane through the throng, stood in two rows staring into each other's faces. Charles and Anne Lindbergh, pale, came swiftly down the gangplank. A scattered, throaty cheer went up. Some...