‘The striped carnation, and the guarded rose, ‘The vulgar wall-flower, and smart gilly-flower, ‘The polyanthus mean—the dapper daisy, ‘Sweet William, and sweet marjorum—and all ‘The tribe of single and of double pinks!

The judge gave them antideadlock instructions, reminding them of the reasonable doubt standard that the State must satisfy and encouraging them to try to arrive at a verdict.

He would make a good manager, if he had a little more backbone.

Part of the answer lies in the wave of “syphilophobia” that engulfed the country during the 1930s and 1940s.