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...district court in Somerville, Mass, one morning last week, beaming Clerk Louis Connolly presented him with an empty docket. There had not been a single arrest in Somerville for 34 hours. Beaming even more brightly, Clerk Connolly then handed up a package from a 5-&-10? store. Contents: a pair of white gloves. Significance: When judges made a circuit of ancient English towns to hold assizes, any town which had no criminals to be tried celebrated such a "maiden assize" by presenting the judges with white gloves-because judges as a mark of submission to the Crown wore none while...
...Shiites but even the literate Government clique-including youthful King Ghazi, who belongs to the opposed Sunnite sect-sympathize with the Arabs of Palestine. Anti-Jewish propaganda is, in the circumstances, anti-British propaganda. Last spring both Sunnites and Shiites relished a poster depicting John Bull holding a pair of scales in which an Arab, an Indian and a Negro in one tray were outweighed by a fat, long-nosed...
...Philadelphia court, Isaac Thomas admitted having participated in a crap game. The judge handed him the evidence -a pair of dice-and commanded him to roll them. Thomas threw a five, a three. Sentence: eight days...
...only when he has returned to the plantation and talks with his wife and neighbors about the situation in general. In tone, these conversations are not very different from equally interminable conversations about his generally pleasant and prospering plantation affairs. And since both Cavin and his wife (an idyllic pair) are dimly characterized, the novel's total effect is to make the violence of Reconstruction seem as placid as Cavin's family is respectably heroic...
Thinking my eyes were deceiving me, I measured the design with a pair of calipers and find there is 3mm. difference between the horizontal and vertical meridians...