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...inquisitor heard Police Sergeant William Watkins say that about 25 babies had died at the Brooks farm and that he had "good reason to believe that some of these little victims came to their deaths by means of poison or violence or consequences of some criminal...
...Last week as he vacated his office so that his friend and Harvard classmate, Edward Raymond Burke, could move in for a full six-year term as Senator from Nebraska, Richard Charles Hunter said mournfully: "I was a Senator, though, even if I wasn't sworn in. The sergeant-at-arms showed me my seat early in December. It had my name on it. I did a lot of work while I was here. I must have handled as many as 150 cases for veterans and others...
...chiefly on situation but he has the reputation of writing wise-crackling dialog. Random samples: " 'Say, officer,' continued the voice, 'let's waive the dog for a moment.' 'Don't see what good that's going to do,' grumbled the sergeant. 'It certainly won't help the dog any to go waving him about...
...really fundamental," he intoned with returning dignity, "let us make peace and get on with our work." In a few minutes the Lords slipped the amended bill through second reading. Then, as the House adjourned, the Lord High Chancellor, preceded by the Purse Bearer, preceded in turn by the Sergeant-at-Arms carrying the Mace, made the most unusual gesture of stopping in his tracks before the Lord Chief Justice. Impulsively Sankey held out his hand to Hewart who gripped it warmly, ended with a hearty shake the House of Lords' most painful scene in 50 years...
...Forty Days of Musa Dagh he recited an Armenian epic founded on an actual incident of the World War. Humanizing one more bloody no-man's-land, this 817-page novel immediately takes its place, with All Quiet on the Western Front and The Case of Sergeant Grischa, as one of the War's big books...