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...bespectacled girl who was thrown out of half-a-dozen of the toughest brothels in a tough city for bad behavior. Fleeing to San Francisco in 1849, she ran a haberdashery at enormous profit, killed a stage driver and later a member of a mob that invaded her home. Freed by a friendly Justice of the Peace she escaped another gang, returned to New Orleans, married the wealthy owner of Hinkley's California Express. She was arrested for mistreating slaves and for taking part in a voodoo orgy, later succeeded in trapping a rich widower named Stephens and persuading...
...life and activities separately from the rest of the undergraduates. This unitary character of Freshman life greatly accentuates, the trend to self-reliance and independence which have long been a part of even the first year at Harvard." ". . . a unified Freshman class segregated from the other undergraduates and freed from all forms of hazing can develop self-reliance and leadership no less than the other classes...
This year, for the first time in history, Democrats are making a serious bid for the Negro vote everywhere in the U. S. except the South. For nearly 70 years all Negroes were Republicans because Republican Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in battle and blood. But today slavery, in the form of political gratitude, is paying the GOP steadily diminishing returns, and Lincoln's name, by itself, no longer works its oldtime magic...
...Author McGuffey whistled for the neighbors' children, read them each selection before he included it. In the monosyllabic First Reader, small scholars read of the lame dog, cured by a veterinary, which expressed its gratitude by searching out another lame dog for the same treatment. A Kind Boy freed his caged bird; a Cruel Boy pulled the legs from flies. A Chimney Sweep, coming upon a gold watch, manfully overcame temptation, was rewarded when his employer provided him with an education. Only grim note in this moral feast was the Tease, who frightened a playmate into insanity...
Road to Exile is a modest book. Touching briefly but dramatically on his own exploits, Lussu skims over the facts that he dodged his enemies successfully until 1927, evaded a dozen traps set for him, killed one of the men who tried to seize him and was freed despite pressure from the Fascists. When he was wounded while in the hands of the police, the demonstrations of his supporters almost caused a rebellion in Sardinia. Deported to the island of Lipari in 1927, he escaped two years later...