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Miss Anderson was tried first. Six officers in white uniforms with decorations and sabres constituted the austere court. Lieutenant Gordon of the Marine Corps was prosecutor. Lieutenant Horan of the Marine Corps was counsel for the defense. Miss Anderson testified that, at Guantanamo, she received a package as a gift from a friend; she did not open it, but packed it in her chest on her return to this country. A customs inspector at Norfolk opened the chest, the package, found seven quart bottles-gin, rye, Scotch, Bacardi, crème de menthe. Said her counsel: "The court may wonder...
Bliss Perry: A scholar in our own modern tongue, an author and a teacher with a rare gift for making delight in literature contagious...
...black satchel instead of conveyed in the usual channels, concerning which no records were kept and having for receipt a note with its signature torn off) was "contra bonos mores," "a fraud upon the United States," "a colossal infamy regardless of whether it was a bribe, a gift or a loan...
...book will solve the steamer-gift problem of unresourceful people but its intrinsic value recommends it as a tip for the steward. The selections of verse present strongest claim for reprieve. Included is G. K. Chesterton's Wine and Water...
...Wertheim Research Fellowship was established in 1923 by gift of the family of the late Jacob Wertheim of New York...