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Fitzgerald gets a lot of queries about local traveling. Some demanding journeyman once taxed him to the utmost. "I'm going to California," he casually remarked. "Will you be good enough to recommend a cheap, respectable hotel where 1 can glay over in Chicago?" Fitzgerald replied. "Any place not run by a Harvard graduate...
...pilgrims against each other, with daggers drawn. Let a man come in late, and he would have his light splattered out by the contents of a neighbor's chamber pot. After the pilgrims finally landed at Jaffa, they were "rushed round the usual Holy Places in the utmost haste and hardly given any time to rest." Dissatisfied, Felix made up his mind to take the trip again...
...first half of her program Miss Skinner mirrored women, present-day variety, with an amazing virtuosity. With the utmost case she shifted from the characters to another. She played young women, middle-aged women, and old women; women from Kentucy, Ohio, New England, Sweden and France. All this she accomplished with no more of a costume range than the rearranging of a red beret...
...Chill in Court. "My Lord," began the Prosecutor, Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross, his grey wig clamped firmly forward over his forehead, "this is a case of the utmost gravity . . . The prisoner is a Communist, and that is at once the explanation and indeed the tragedy of this case . . ." Shawcross went over the story that Fuchs had told in his confession -the course of a brilliant, morally blind man from confusion to total, irretrievable corruption (TIME...
...meant for individuals only, not collective groups. "It is the inalienable right of a collectivity to defend its integrity and existence against unjust aggression . . . The citizen has the duty to render the society to which he belongs . . . the indispensable service of picking up arms and fighting to the utmost of his fully exploited capabilities in defense of his community menaced by unjust aggression." Conscientious objectors, he warned, "are guilty of Lucifer-like sin of pride or of grave error or of complete misunderstanding of God's laws...