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...Coplon bit her lips, began to twist a handkerchief. From across the room Archie Palmer rasped: "Try to smile, Mrs. Coplon." The old lady immediately burst into tears. Archie, who had a selection of throat lozenges lined up along the jury rail, picked out an orange mint and popped it contentedly into his mouth. Judy held her mother's hands. Judge and jury entered. Said Archie, over the sound of the old lady's sobbing...
...thing, Kent was dead-he had lost his job, and fortnight ago had rented a canoe, paddled up the Potomac and cut his own throat with a kitchen knife. For another thing, the FBI document stated that he had gotten the Bulgarian's address from Mrs. Emilie Condon, wife of Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of the federal Bureau of Standards...
...London, pressed for an explanation about that 1941 luncheon, the Foreign Office declared, with a slight frog in its throat, that its "research had produced no record of any such meeting." Winston
Into President Truman's offices one day last week went his three-man Council of Economic Advisers, to give him their report on the U.S. economy. Tall, gaunt old Chairman Edwin G. Nourse adjusted his pince-nez, cleared his throat, and informed the President that the U.S. was still in "a healthy state of disinflation." It had not "fallen...
...second later in such gales of laughter. Once, at the funeral of a beloved friend on a rainy day, Dickens found himself close to Cartoonist George Cruikshank (who illustrated Oliver Twist) and became fascinated by the artist's "enormous whiskers, which straggle all down his throat in such weather [looking] like a partially unravelled bird's-nest." As Dickens explained himself later, he was "penetrated with sorrow" for the family of the dead but, at the same time, threatened with "convulsions" at the sight of the living. He nearly blew himself apart with simultaneous spasms of misery...