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...youthful embryo-Messiah Krishnamurti. In between expeditions to Nautch girls and in search of a guru (teacher) he played polo, stuck "pigs" (wild boars). He gives a vivid description of a polo match, a no less vivid account of what it feels like to chase a boar, try to pin it with a lance-thrust. Says he: "In the open, the odds are against the boar, but in blind cover [where the hunters follow on foot, armed only with a lance] he has more than an equal chance against a man. That is one of the purifying risks...
...asked President Hoover to honor the man who had given him his first Cabinet foothold for the climb to the White House. A Hoover secretary replied that the President was too busy, advised the association to go ahead, dedicate without him. Other attempts to pin President Hoover down to a promise of participation also failed...
Scheinschneider was sent from the courtroom while an attendant hid a pin under a chair...
When he returned, Scheinschneider found the pin. Then the prosecuting attorney gave the accused a fragment of a letter. Scheinschneider gave a thoroughgoing character analysis of the writer. Then another lawyer told him the date and place of an occurrence. Scheinschneider told what had happened. Then he was given a watch. Scheinschneider identified its owner...
...strong language, Senators immediately got the idea that the documents would make racy personal reading, called for them louder than ever. Reports spread that Ambassador Dawes had characterized one British proposal as "damned nonsense," that Secretary of State Stimson had referred to certain U. S. Senators as "pin-heads." Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, a Treaty proponent, insisted, however, that he had read the secret documents and had "had a hard time keeping awake...