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...dragged in a dazed condition to the patrol wagon. At the station he refused to give his name to anyone but the desk sergeant. He was seized by three patrolmen, dragged to the hall, and while two of them held his arms, a third knocked him unconscious with a fist blow to the face...
...this thing so far." When Risberg got through, the accused players spent four hours denying everything he had said about them. It was true, they said, that the White Sox had paid some money to Detroit, but that was "as a reward for beating Boston. . . ." Donie Bush shook a fist in Risberg's face. Eddie Collins, with a catch in his voice, said the story was "all a damned lie. . . ." Risberg smiled. The players dropped cigaret butts on the carpet. Commissioner Landis withdrew to consider his decision...
Naturally the German press blazed wrath. Cried the Tagliche Rundschau, organ of Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann: "This infamous blemish on French justice in the occupied Rhineland is a blow with the fist in the face of the German people...
...Shame on those who brought this Fall and Doheny case to a miserable close; shame on those who forgot their oaths of allegiance to their country; and shame on those who have forgotten and who have betrayed their country." Perhaps, Attorney Hogan* would have liked to plant his fist in Mr. Heflin's white waistcoat; perhaps, Messrs. Fall and Doheny would have liked to have sued him for libel. But they did not. Mr. Heflin is a Senator, and Senators are public servants, whose words know...
...With eyes no bigger than squirt-holes in the snow, Hallisey edged up to Casey, dragging one foot behind the other. "Lead at me," he said, "Lead-you funny fellow." He was uttering words never before heard in the law class of Prof. Carl C. Wheaton. Casey led. His fist flicked Hallisey's jaw, knocking him against the way. Hallisey, with a face of frenzy, drew a dagger, stabbed Casey to the heart. The wounded boy slumped softly down in a red puddle. Dean Alphonse G. Eberle of the Law School of St. Louis University, with Casey propped...