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...come in sight. For 18 minutes until the last of the brokerage army had passed, the booing continued. In the rear of the reviewing stand Boss Curry of Tammany, who has the job of re-electing Mayor O'Brien in November, frowned under the brim of his silk...
...French and Japanese concessions were already a foot deep in water. Afraid that even Nanking the capital, only 200 miles from the sea, might be flooded, the Government sent out soldiers who rounded up every coolie they could catch, prodded them out to the Yangtze's brim, kept them working day and night under bayonet guard, piling up dirt and still more dirt...
Neglected year after year, lackeys proudly dusted it off and filled it to the brim. Rapidly losing her appetite for war after the assassination of pugnacious President Luis M. Sanchez Cerro. Peru had agreed to accept the League formula for the settlement of her undeclared war with Colombia over the seizure of Leticia last September. The settlement...
...perfection of chic. . . . "Held closely to her well-poised head, her fair hair visible through its delicate mesh, this airy, unsubstantial fabric [the veil] drifted in long, broad folds for yards behind her, as fragile as a mist, enmeshing her tall figure, concealing her face, and, in its upturned brim that circled her shapely head, forming the semblance of a halo, that gave her the air of one of the saints or angels that, in color, looked down from the gorgeous memorial windows on every hand. . . ." Actually the two-and-one-half columns showed a degree of restraint. Miss Devereux...
While thousands of comrades hopped up & down on Mother Dnieper's brim, U. S. Engineer Colonel Hugh L. Cooper received, the Red Banner of Labor as did five of his U. S. assistants. Russians, although they have heard of Colonel Cooper, give most of the credit to Soviet Chief Engineer Alexander Winter, whose name few U. S. citizens have ever heard...