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...national figure. Earl, beaded with the righteous sweat of his endeavors, thought he deserved higher honors. But Huey paid no attention. For one thing, Earl's wild temper and mode of fighting made him unpopular. During the impeachment proceedings he sank his teeth into one legislator's throat, and chewed until he was pulled off. Later, one Frank P. Krieger complained that Earl had all but bitten his finger off. Also, Huey seemed to have had doubts about Earl's political savvy...
...enemy heads before the British stamped the custom out. Knots of hair hung from many hilts, but the main decoration consisted of tassels of pheasant feathers dangling from their sheaths. Charms made of wild boar or crocodile teeth hung from their waists. Some displayed intricate patterns tattooed on throat and chest; a few sported Hollywood-style sunglasses. The headman of the group, one Jabu, unsheathed his parang. "It's more than 50 years old, like me," he said. "It's still sharp...
Semper Paratus. In Provincetown, Mass., police took a second look at George Ash Gaines, arrested him, extracted sun glasses, vitamin pills, stage money, scissors, surgical throat lights and 212 other odds & ends from the two suits he was wearing...
Forty minutes after the cobra struck, Mrs. Wiley was in Long Beach Municipal Hospital. The only antivenom serum there was from North American snakes, and useless for cobra bites. Her throat muscles had begun to contract ominously. Mrs. Wiley, now almost unconscious, shook her head hopelessly. She was put into an iron lung, but it was too late; the paralysis was creeping through her chest. When it reached her heart muscles, an hour and forty minutes after she had been bitten, Grace Wiley died...
Winston Churchill, a sturdy monogamist himself, pointed out the loopholes to prospective wife-killers. If you are anxious to avoid hanging, he said, "you can strangle her, hold her head in a gas oven . . . stab her, cut her throat or bash her brains out. If you can arrange a procedure, you can set her on fire, push her off a station platform in front of an oncoming train, push her through the porthole of a ship, or, more easily, you can drown her in the bathtub...