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...Bloodhounds bay for three days and nights in the back hills and Bradley is brought in to jail, crusted with mud but full of bravado. Sharing his contempt for the law and seething with Old Testament, the community grows ominously quiet. Abner suggests a plan; feet tramp, a rope is knotted and what was Peck Bradley twists slowly in the air near his ambush...
...data available leads to an obvious conclusion. America is wealthy, powerful, and politically-minded. She holds a strategic position in the economic world and possesses enough political ability to exploit it. And her journalists respond with unpremeditated "hurrahs". While the rope of sand holds, this new "Condescension in Americans" will retain its still plebeian savoir faire...
...Bridge" or "Rope"? The treaty may become either a bridge over which Soviet Russia will pass into contact with other "capitalistic" nations, or a rope by which the Soviets may tug Germany out of friendly contact with the west. Frenchmen were generally anxious about and critical of the new instrument last week. Most League officials seemed not to share the French view that it will tend to keep Germany out of the League...
...hundred gentlemen of Mississippi, standing, with handkerchiefs over their faces, on a bridge near Picayune, one night last week, derived considerable amusement from the spectacle of a man who stood trembling before them in a cotton nightshirt with a rope around his neck. The other end of the rope was attached to the railing of the bridge...
...long line of cars put back to Picayune. When they came to the bridge, the gentlemen adjusted the rope and paused for a moment to enjoy the joke. Then they told Jackson to jump. When the body, its last hideous paroxysm over, hung limp and awry on the rope's end, the cars moved on, their headlights following each other out of sight, into the darkness...