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...stern, successful effort to put down native rebellions and buttress unshakably the Chinese cornerstone of French empire. At a reception a native with a bomb shook the Governor-General's hand, grew nervous under his steady gaze, lost courage, shuffled on down the reception line, then turned and threw the bomb which blew a great hole in the floor near M. Sarraut. Few months later another bomb, hurled directly at the Governor-General, missed him by inches, rolled among a crowd and blew twelve Chinese to bits. Indomitable M. Sarraut continued to appear publicly on all occasions while slant...
...week. Meanwhile he continued negotiations over weights and distances for the prospective match with Equipoise. Mr. Whitney consented to race at seven furlongs (seven-eighths of a mile) instead of a mile, and for cash instead of a trophy. When Manager Naylor demanded a $25,000 purse, "Sonny" Whitney threw up his hands, called off the match...
...William Bradford of New York City's only newspaper, the New York Weekly Gazette, he had set himself up as a printer, though continuing to contribute occasionally to the Gazette. When William Bradford, numbed by official censorship, saw Printer Zenger's frank account of the election he threw up his hands, refused to print it. John Peter Zenger forthwith started a newspaper of his own, the New York Weekly Journal, came out next week with a special broadside describing the election...
John Peter Zenger could set up his stories in type far better than he could write them. But to Governor Cosby the facts of corruption and tyranny revealed were as awkward as Zenger's syntax. He had several numbers of the Journal publicly burned, threw John Peter Zenger into jail on a charge of seditious libel...
...accident, the murder had been out. To keep the truth from killing his mother, and to save Lance. Fayne persuaded him not to confess what he had done. But his atonement was too much for him: she saw him going slowly mad before her eyes. When at last he threw himself over a cliff Fayne was not surprised, would not let herself follow him because she was growing big with his child...