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District Attorney Jerome of Manhattan was trying to obtain evidence against Richard A. Canfield, famed gambler. Vanderbilt was known to be a frequenter of Canfield's place; dowagers who had never set foot therein avowed that he had often lost as much as $75,000 in one evening. The attorney subpoenaed him as a witness. He, with a gentleman's reticence for airing his losses in public, avoided the subpoena. Hundreds of detectives believing him to be concealed in his Manhattan house, beleaguered the place. The press played up the episode as a farce. Crowds gathered to stare...
...hobby: words. In his spare moments he would seize the Webster dictionary which crowned his desk and therein peruse definitions which he compared with those of the lexicographer, Worcester. This habit bred the rhythm in his conversation "Now Webster says . . . but Worcester maintains...
...view of the circumstances, this office has now no recommendation to make in the matter of further proceeding in the Ward case but submits what has been said for your consideration in determining such question of further proceeding therein or in similar cases...
...leaves; if he carries a lunch kit, it is lifted and shaken; every soiled apron or shop coat carried out for laundry is felt and squeezed; also men's pockets that look rather bulky are felt to make sure that a radiator or fender is not concealed therein...
House of Bondage. Then Brigham clapped eyes on The Book of Mormon, a surprising document "translated" by one Joseph Smith Jr. from cryptic gold plates evangelically supplied out of a New York hillside called Cumorah. Therein it was set forth that two tribes had shipped direct to America from the Tower of Babel. The presence of Red Indians in America "proved" this. Joseph Smith Jr. had been commissioned the Lord's special and prophetic latter-day representative to re-establish Mor- monism...