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...National Demonstration of feeling followed the announcement of the detection of the plot. Premier Mussolini appeared on the "fatal" balcony before a crowd of at least 100,000 Fascists, packed so tightly that it was impossible to lift hands to clap. He cried: "You are here in such numbers that it is clear that, if I had fallen under the assassin's blow, not a tyrant would have died but a humble servant of the nation who daily gives his whole self to the cause of his country...
...thunderstorm whose salvos rocked high heaven and shook the windows of the church wherein burghers and visitors had gathered to hear the trombone choir and the local soloists deliver Bach's Christmas Oratorio, the little town of Bethlehem, Pa., lay still. Conductor Wolle raised his baton. A clap of thunder split the sky like a peasecod. Lightning assaulted the darkness through every shivering window, and the place seemed, for a moment, to be filled with whirling laughter, like the mirth of demons. Conductor Wolle brought down his baton with the air of a man casting out a devil...
...thunderous, irrepressible applause which greeted Professor Bliss Perry at the close of his course in the history of English Literature yesterday morning, was an interesting contrast to the dilatory clap-clap which celebrates the conclusion of the generality of courses in the University...
...matter how well acted, does not necessarily draw a capacity audience. "The Full House", however, lived up to its name, and from the moment the curtain was rung up, kept the crowded theatre reverberating with laughter. Everyone expected to laugh, and laugh spontaneously; the house was prepared to clap, and its patrons are not claques, each of the favorite actors as they first appeared. There is an infectious atmosphere about the St. James which positively breeds mirth...
...thinned, darkened, the sea cowered beside the ship; Jonah slept. Suddenly, the sail split from top to bottom and one mariner, huddled with the rest, called on the name of his god in a voice shrill and little like a bat's; next instant, with a great clap, the sky fell into...