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...Albuquerque, N. Mex. a thief broke into the house of George Martin, stole a jacket, a mattress, a sheepskin coat, a pair of overalls. Next day he brought them back, left a note...
...found its way to Soviet School No. 25 and there last week alert New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Ralph W. Barnes found poring over it a sandy-haired twelve-year-old with a great name. The youngster was Vassily ("Vasya") Iosifovich Stalin, in a neat blue double-breasted jacket and a red tie. Close-cropped fair hair, pale face and lively eyes marked Vasya for the son of his late blonde, plump mother rather than of his father, Russia's blue-black-haired Steel...
Cried Dr. Maier: "Without Luther there could have been no Washington. . . . While [Lincoln] dealt with bodies in bondage and minds coerced by mental slavery, Luther threw off the shackles of that damnable spiritual tyranny that pressed human souls of all colors and races into the strait jacket of abject terror that cringes before the distressing spectres of an outraged conscience and shudders before the thought of God and eternity. . . . All Protestantism, yea, Roman Catholicism itself, as its eminent scholars have admitted, not only owes him an everlasting debt of gratitude but also needs the restatement of many of his principles...
...entering Harvard next month." "Oh!" she cooed, "Are you! We'll see each other at the Brattles. That'll be ducky. 'N you know, I live in Concord. Just call, won't you? It isn't so far." Someone tapped his shoulder. "May I?" asked a blank-faced Dinner Jacket: Three more years, he thought as he crossed the polished floor to the liner's bar, he would be of age, and no more damned guardians. * * * John was cutting cordwood when the postman drove up and rattled at the tin mailbox by the road. "H'lo John" the postman sang...
...Jockeys riding for His Majesty wear a purple jacket with scarlet sleeves, a black velvet cap fringed with gold...