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...Church that has failed, but the man who did the crime." Other reasons adduced by Chaplain McCaffrey for Catholics being in prison: many are of races "addicted to the use of knife and pistol"; many are from the slums. Also, "a Catholic has more temptations because of the strict moral code that his church holds him to, and especially in our complicated social structure where his economic conditions throw him into conflict with the laws protecting property ... 70% of the men in Sing Sing are here because of ... stealing in its various forms...
From a company making a picture for him, Director De Mille demands strict attention during his frequent harangues. During the course of one such address while filming his latest piece, he sternly asked one female extra what she was whispering about. She said she was wondering when he would stop talking so she could get to lunch. Thereupon he took her to lunch...
...West Point team did not put up as strong a game as was expected, its playing should be a valuable lesson to every football player at Harvard, as an example of what can be accomplished by earnest application, under the most unfavorable circumstances. The strict discipline which is maintained at the military academy makes it impossible for the football players to have more than fifteen minutes each day for practice. An exception is made on Saturday, when they are allowed an hour and twenty minutes for a game and on one other day in the week when they are given...
There are two final considerations which should be mentioned. A numerical restriction of the number of meal's each week that a man might eat in other Houses has been suggested. Such a system would be a strict, perhaps in the long run an unavoidable limitation, but it seems wiser to try the above proposals as they stand; if they fail to provide sufficient limitation there will then have been experience upon which to base any necessary restriction. Finally, there appears no logical reason why hosts to Freshman should not be able to include their guest's meal in their...
...constrictors, electric eels and other fierce creatures. The captured women stand and weep. Their weeping is important. If no woman was captured in the raid, the victors appoint their own women as proxies to weep for the gory heads. Each man who took a head goes on a strict diet for at least six months. He may eat no flesh of fierce animals, may never go hunting alone, must exculpate himself by sending a formal payment to the widow or a near relative of his victim. Then the head catcher may peel his trophy, artfully shrink the empty skin, display...