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...uproar that followed, a Labor Member of Parliament challenged British Chief Scout Lord Rowallan to debate forthwith the question: "Whether a Boy Scout can be a Communist." As Communists paraded the streets outside Westminster urging the government to "put McCarthyism out of the Boy Scouts," Lord Rowallan declared firmly: "We have a duty to our boys and parents to protect them from undue influences...
...then John's irate daddy, 76-year-old Industrialist John R. Winter, fired the persuasive Brazilian. According to John, Sabino forthwith threatened to "pump me full of hot lead," and made John write off all debts on the clothes, TV set and car, and on top of that had the gall to demand a $100-a-week salary for life...
...long for this world. In 1527, a touring bishop of Calahorra. whose family had long been persecuted by Rome's ruthless Borgias, caught sight of it and howled at the outrage of such a sinner as Cesare being buried in church ground. The sarcophagus was demolished forthwith. The remains of Cesare Borgia, illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI and himself a cardinal at 18, an accomplished murderer at 25, and military conqueror of a good part of Italy at 27, were carried into the street and buried beneath the cobblestones and the dung of passing cattle. For 400 years...
...feller you'd seldom ever see." Kind-hearted or not, Bass was laid for by the citizens of Round Rock, who had been warned by a stool pigeon of his intentions. Mortally wounded, Bass died two days later. The jail, a null affair built of heavy timbers, was forthwith erected, since crime was obviously getting to be a problem. But after 73 years of waiting for more gunfire. Round Rock decided that Sam's visit had been a little unusual, and sold the jail to Appliance Dealer Edward Walsh Jr. (who wanted the timber) for $212. Said Mayor...
...association with the University, about the accuracy of this public image of Harvard, and about the essential soundness of the Corporation decisions which have provoked present attacks. Any student who thinks the Corporation wrong, who thinks professors who use the Fifth Amendment should be fired forthwith, should let the Corporation know it, for as a Harvard student he is being hurt as much by this public image as any University official. But for this very reason, any undergraduate who thinks the more vocal foes of the University are creating false impressions with outright lies has just as much...