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Regarding the murder of the little Chancellor, just what would be the sporting thing to do, should you want to rid your nation of a dictator who substitutes machine gun and noose for public support...
...walls of the museum were men who had been friends and enemies. Sir William Phips made his fortune by discovering a wrecked Spanish treasure ship. An incompetent, wasteful Governor of Massachusetts, he was hanging near his friend William Stoughton whom he appointed chief justice of a special tribunal to rid the land of witches. In 1692 Phips, alarmed at Stoughton's wholesale convictions, rescinded his last batch of execution orders. Enraged, Stoughton "refused to sitt upon ye bench." Stern was the face of Governor John Endecott who could abide neither tobacco nor people who needed haircuts and who once...
President Roosevelt sat at his desk in the White House all one day last week happy in the thought that before another dawn he would get rid of Congress for six months. Towards evening he paused to dictate the customary letter of farewell and appreciation from the President to his co-workers at the Capitol...
...story of Many Happy Returns is loosely wound around the efforts of Gracie's father to get rid of her when he returns from Europe and finds her pro posing to turn his Manhattan department store into a bird sanctuary. The trip to Hollywood is the result of a marriage arranged when her father offers to pay Burns $10 for every mile away from New York the honeymoon takes the couple. An overextension of Burns & Allen radio programs, Many Happy Returns, like Six of a Kind, should delight audiences who can stand such gags as: "I've never...
...kept him fairly equable through bankruptcy, an accusation of treason, a near-drowning, when he was thrown into the River Rhone by Caligula's orders. In the sabbatanic orgies at the palace Claudius played well his appointed role of buffoon, bided his time. But when a conspiracy finally rid Rome of Caligula, only a threat of death from the Palace Guard made Claudius choose the unwanted post of Emperor. He comforted himself by thinking that now he could give public readings from his history, and people would have to come and pay attention...