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  • In Illinois, Schwall -- who has pleaded not guilty -- faces up to 40 years in prison.

    Mow The Lawn--Or Else 2008

  • So on a cool evening last summer, three months before the baby was due, Schwall stood in the parking lot of the Wilmette, Ill., church where he had been an altar boy.

    Mow The Lawn--Or Else 2008

  • Schwall allegedly asked the man to shoot the girl in the stomach in order to kill her and the unborn baby.

    Mow The Lawn--Or Else 2008

  • Altar boy, baseball ump, professor-to-be -- Schwall is the last person you'd expect to hire a hit man.

    Mow The Lawn--Or Else 2008

  • Schwall had worked hard -- as a babysitter, a camp counselor and a Little League umpire -- to pay for his dream of becoming an English professor.

    Mow The Lawn--Or Else 2008

  • Mr. SIEGEL: Well, you know, understand that first of all chamber music and blues, the combination, came together when Seiji Ozawa used to come into Big John's where Siegel-Schwall used to play and said he would like his band, which was the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ...

    Corky Siegel's Triple Blues Threat 2005

  • Mr. SIEGEL: And my band was Siegel-Schwall and he wanted to bring the blues onto the stage with symphonic music and he felt it was important, for many reasons, socially and musically.

    Corky Siegel's Triple Blues Threat 2005

  • In dem wogenden Schwall, in dem tönenden Schall, in des Welt-Athems wehendem All!

    The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow Upton Sinclair 1923

  • _Chevyn_ or a _Pollarde_; it is in Latin called _Capitus_, from its great head; the Germans _Schwall_, or _Alet_; and _Myn_ or

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • So far, Schwall has doled out a few thousand dollars to a handful of researchers, but it's still the early days for SHFHS.

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Ashlee Vance 2011

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