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...began with a telephone call. A simple, innocent, unsuspecting Adams House Sophomore was informed in no uncortain terms that he was to report at Cambridge Police Station Number Two to answer very serious charges. Needless to say, our frightened young man was on hand. Visions of prison walls, deportation, even the chair passed in rapid succession before his eyes as he waited. Now that he thought of it, he had made some pretty serious criticism of the N.R.A. at dinner last week. In a moment a gruff voice demanded him to plead guilty or not guilty to charges of running...
...supple husband is delivered into the power of Demon Rum. Lower and lower sinks our here until the very meanest of New York's gutters will no longer accept his drink-rotted carcass. Honest Will Dowton sticks by him and appears at opportune moments to save him from the prison cell toward which the wretch of a Squire is directing his staggering steps. Will has a half-witted sister (played by a well-known campus character under the Puritan alias of Penny Menace) who, with her wild-eyed lyrical ramblings, steals a good bit of the show. As our hero...
...must follow us and use every weapon. We shall ask mainly a taxpayers' strike and withdrawal of money from State savings banks. We shall have to go very far-so far that we will have to face worse things than prison. We must take our guns and fire into the mass...
...gray convention's shackling prison cell...
...dragons were papier-mâché bugaboos: "He was one of those reformers who attack with public opinion behind them, and are rewarded with an increase in their wealth and popularity. He was not one of those reformers . . . who run counter to public opinion and are put in prison and ruined." Kingsmill states his whole case in one arresting comparison when he calls Charlie Chaplin "the Dickens of the 20th Century...