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...Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and the Pullman Co. for $50,000. Plaintiff Mitchell's description of an Arkansas Jim Crow car: ". . . The car was divided by partitions and partly used for carrying baggage, . . . poorly ventilated, filthy, filled with stench and odors emitting from the toilet and other filth, which is indescribable." His description of the language a Southern train conductor used on a member of the U. S. Congress: ". . . Too opprobrious and profane, vulgar and filthy to be spread upon the records of this court...
...beginning of the end of incorporated filth," snapped Mayor LaGuardia...
...went to England to dig into the origins of the court in which he sits. No snuffer, Judge Stearne likes to smoke his pipe when out of the Orphans' Court, philosophize about his work. Says he: "We do have contact with the rattling skeletons and the filth and the slime, yet on occasion life's most delightful romances and amusing comedies are unfolded before our very eyes. . . ." Actual conduct of the hearings of Case No. 2552 was assigned to Master William M. Davison Jr., a Scotsman, and to Examiners Clinton A. Sowers and George Ross, whose fees...
...first sentence sounds Lawrence's theme: "God, this is awful." Then he settles down to prove it with explicit descriptions of the hardships of barracks life and phonographic reproductions of the unqualified filth of his fellow-soldiers' speech. Most of the recruits had been taken off the dole, some were demoralized down-and-outers, a few were petty criminals who had escaped punishment by joining the Air Force. Even readers less puritanical than Lawrence may feel that he fell in with a particularly foul-mouthed crew. One pious soldier with whom he had attended church led the company...
...coiling and uncoiling at the wind's whim." In the networks of wires and trenches, the miles of invisible men, walking, talking, fighting, dying, the great chaos of war always seemed insanely futile from the air. From the new perspective of height the men who fought "in verminous filth to take the next trench 30 yards away" seemed incredible, since the pilot could see, beyond that objective, one after another, 70 miles away. Lewis' strongest memories were not of isolated battles, although he recalled several of them, but of poetic and philosophic experiences high above the earth...