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...Eddie Eagan is a genuinely sweet guy. He is profoundly honest and profoundly sincere, diffident, humble and considerate. The first two qualities are indispensable in a boxing commissioner; probably the other three are a handicap." Smith also had a warning for Christenberry: "This veteran hotelman will find the fight mob noisier than convention drunks, less manageable than a weekend football crowd, and accomplished in more devious dodges than an absconding deadbeat...
...Sanctuary was the rape of a teasing little society bitch named Temple Drake, and her forced month-long stay in a "Memphis sporting house" after her drunken gentleman escort, Gowan Stevens, had abandoned her to a bunch of petty hoodlums. Temple fell in love with one of the mob named "Red," only to see him murdered...
...fruit but only blossoms") and flavor their love of practical purpose with a dash of the gentile gift for the fanciful. Gentiles, on the other hand, might do well to stop hymning their capacity for "the purest intuitions," which have a nasty habit of emerging in the form of "mob spirit...
...with a great deal of dismay that we read the July 23 report "Ugly Nights in Cicero." That an entire community could be so bigoted and prejudiced . . . by participating in such a disgraceful spectacle of mob action is a matter of grave concern . . . If such attitudes were prevalent on a national scale we would have no reason to think we are any better than the tyrannical forces of Communism which we are opposing in Korea today, and it would certainly leave those of us in Korea with little purpose or reason for fighting...
...lion's tail. Privately, Nahas Pasha, like King Farouk and the rest of Egypt's upper crust, probably dreads nothing so much as the withdrawal of Britain's defensive screen. Without it, Egypt would be in poorer shape to resist the Russians, its own restless mob, and the Israelis, whom many Egyptians still fear. The British are convinced, as they were in Iran, that the Egyptians cannot get along without them. But the peril is that, as in Iran, a government unable to deliver on its domestic promises will have to live up to its defiant speeches...