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...this squalid town, which thousands of men in the next four years would die to gain or lose, there was a chill of fear in 1860, a feeling that democracy had reached the end of its rope. A revolution - secession - was under way. "It was unique among revolutions only in its impunity. Southern Senators and Representatives made no secret of their disloyalty...
Author of the poll: young, blond William T. Reed, Chicago candymaker who, four years after he graduated from Purdue, invented fiber-rope handles for lollipops. (He claims they are safer than the old wooden sticks.) The Reed name for the safety suckers: "Paloops." Mr. Reed, who has a two-year-old son of his own, got lists from summer camps, Sunday schools and Y.M.C.A.s, sent out 10,000 questionnaires. He was so pleased with his poll's results that he planned another one, thought he might keep right on with...
...trait is a nuisance for her adoring, rich, hard-working publisher husband (Ronald Colman). For Caroline's heart is warm and wide and susceptible to dilettant males who are forever seeing "the essential Caroline," to flashy Latins looking for a wealthy woman who can "ride and shoot and rope a steer." Her capacity for bemused self-deception keeps Husband Colman busy wooing her back from each butterflight...
Strategically Japan had taken herself some more rope. Sooner or later somebody was likely to get hanged...
...Smith got the woman's body a couple of feet up. Frank took up one wrist, round which was an identity disc. 'Mrs. Miller,' he read off. Mrs. Miller had been a very big, strong and vigorous woman. 'Get a rope,' said the man in plus-fours...