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...must be taken at once to the hospital for an operation. At the Essex County Isolation Hospital in Soho, N. J., Dr. D. J. Poia and Nurse Marion Raitzel took their seats in an ambulance. The gong clanged. Rounding corners in Maplewood, N. J., the passengers were obliged to hang tight. Rounding one corner everything went stunning, dizzy black. The driver had hit a trolley pole. The ambulance body had flown from the chassis, which wrecked further on. Dr. Poia and Nurse Raitzel came to in dizzy red. Passersby pulled them out of the smash. Badly cut, deeply bruised, they...
...Brutus, Jesus Christ had his Judas Iscariot, the United States had its Benedict Arnold and Jefferson Davis, and Illinois has Len Small. And if the Judas of Illinois had the courage of the Judas of Jesus, he would return the 30 pieces of silver, get a rope and hang himself, and remove the withering blight which will remain upon this state as long as he is Governor of Illinois...
...beautiful is to pierce a hole through the flesh of her lower lip and insert a flat wooden plug. Do the same with the upper lip, and gradually insert larger and larger plugs. At last two wooden discs as large as soup plates, each edged with stretched lip, will hang down from the beautified face, almost prevent speech, and render eating extremely difficult. Complete the beautification by filing the teeth to sharp points and hanging a ring in the nose. Then, in the French Colony of Senegal, West Africa, the woman so adorned may expect to command an excellent price...
...those people who hang their walls with mechanical reproductions of the old masters, art galleries are frigid, prices of paintings and etchings are frightening, art itself is mystifying...
...virtually no slaves rose up. Instead Col. Robert E. Lee, then of the U. S. Army, marched up and recaptured the arsenal. Invested to the last with the dignity of intense conviction, John Brown was hanged in a hollow square of 1,500 infantry. His gallows-words were: "I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose...