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Lisbon. Through a cordon of vociferous police a band of students sprang. Shouting greetings they swung cloaks off their shoulders and spread them for the feet of Miss Ruth Elder. Touched, she thanked them; excited and faintly afraid of the pushing Portugese she clung to the arm of Fred Morris Dearing, American Minister to Portugal. Lisbon revelled. As she stepped to the mainland of Europe (14 days almost to the hour after taking off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, with pilot George W. Haldeman for a transatlantic flight which ended when they were hoisted from the ocean off the Azores...
...petition, whipped out a revolver and fired through the windshield at the aged president. Smiles on the faces of policemen faded instantly. Before the assailant could pull the trigger twice a dozen strong arms of the law had siezed him. Soldiers, alarmed by the shot, became rigid, threw a cordon around the would-be assassin to prevent his being torn asunder by the infuriated...
...sometimes happens that one cat will sift through the cordon of stagehands to blink before footlights. When stage hands permit two cats to go astray in such embarrassment, the audience may well consider the production a casual...
Safe Blowing. The afternoon was lengthening and employes of the Bank of England were preparing to dash home for a spot of tea, when suddenly they beheld the street full of Metropolitan policemen, hastening resolutely toward the Arcos Building. Throwing a cordon about it, they rushed the open door, occupied the whole building in a twinkling; warned screaming typists and frightened clerks not to touch or attempt to destroy any paper, book or document, herded the women into one large room, the men into another...
...pandemonium increased. There was little time to sterilize the needles, none in which to soothe the frightened or angry dogs. Female dog owners fainted fearing the sight of blood. Male dog owners fought with the doctors in several instances to keep their pets from being jabbed. Finally a cordon of mounted police was drawn around the dog registry, foot gendarmes rushed in and quelled the near riot, the long drawn howls grew plaintive, ceased...