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...political score in the gallery: 30 Senators, nearly all regular Democrats, were voting "guilty" on every count; 26 Senators, the majority of them regular Republicans, were voting "not guilty" on every count. Mrs. Caraway was voting "guilty" with the Democratic regulars, Mrs. Long "not guilty," with the Republicans. The fate of Judge Ritter rested with the 28 Senators who were splitting their votes on the different counts. With the sixth count, another income tax charge, more of this group swung to vote for conviction...
...Paris, Marpurgo attaches himself to the lovers and encourages their troubles. For a while the course of their illicit affair meanders with delightful smoothness. Then Elvira begins to miss her settled respectability. Oliver shamelessly discovers that he is attractive to other women. While Elvira maunders at home over her fate, Oliver with regrettable lightheartedness deceives her with the fey Coromandel, the veteran Blanche, with a chance prostitute who knows her Baudelaire...
Never has it been more possible for the Council to be the legitimate vehicle of student opinion than under the democratic petition-clause of the new constitution. The Council is composed of a comparatively small group of men, and must suffer the fate of all parliaments out of touch with their constituencies unless the members of the University bestir themselves to make their desires and opinions felt...
Against such odds there was doubt whether even popular Governor Horner could win. But excitement was high because more hung on the primary than the fate of Horner and the Kelly machine. Two more big pins in the cat's cradle of Illinois politics are Colonel Knox, publisher of Chicago's Daily News and Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of Chicago's Tribune. Both men and both sheets are Republican. Both are interested in the gubernatorial fights in both parties. Both are at swords' points on all points. The News has attacked vice and misrule under...
Finally, on payment of another fine, and because Ralegh convinced the King that there was gold in the hills of Guiana, he was freed and allowed to fit out his last, most disastrous expedition. Ralegh was 64 when he took this final fling at fate. Everything went wrong. Though he leaned over backward to keep from embroiling himself with the Spaniards, his men were attacked by them, his son killed. In revenge, while Ralegh lay sick aboard his ship, his men stormed and sacked a Spanish town. Yet they found no gold mine...