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...feet and looked nervously for the nearest exit. Amid the pealing of Moscow's bells and the surging of God Save the Czar, two shotguns had belched fire and smoke behind the scenes of the St. Louis Symphony. The shooting was merely part of an old Muscovite custom...
...whom silence has been burdensome-told his story of the long and detailed planning that had gone into the African campaign. After all, said the President, no one could just walk into a department store and buy a second front: such a move took months of custom-building. All through the late summer, while a worldwide controversy raged over the second front, he and Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill had already determined their move: they had to sit by and "take it on the chin." Recounting the events now, the President leaned back in his big chair, puffed...
Moreover, the Legion head's statement about Bridges was "utterly false" in many other respects, he said. The talk was not sponsored by Harvard, but by a recognized University group which had been allowed, in accordance with the usual custom, to use a College room...
...Reverend Mr. Perkins recalled Herrick's warmth and generosity (it was his custom to donate a shell to the crew every year) and his strict following of the sportsman's code...
Putting a crimp in plans for extended weekends, Dean Hanford said yesterday that there would be no holidays, as has been the custom over past years, on the day of the Yale game, at New Haven...