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...Civil War regiment at Milwaukee, he rose to deliver what he said would be his last speech. It was a fiery oration, reverberating with echoes of dead drums and battle cries. As he finished the speech, he faltered, dropped dead. His old adjutant rose, tottered over to drape the body with the flag, then fell dead himself across the body of his commander...
...first morning session Chicago Promotion Manager Ed Dress opened the French windows to clear the smoke-filled room. "My God," he shouted, "here's a mike." It was attached by safety pin to the drape. Fawcett men traced the wires to a room three stories above. The spy had fled, hearing all was discovered, he had paused only long enough to cut his end of the dictagraph loose, grab his hat and coat. Behind him he left luggage, laundry, razor, expense account, unpaid bill. He was registered "J. P. Wriegel, 5 East 34th Street, New York," which...
...limbered up his new gas mask, which he would need more than legs in case of a heavy dust storm, and he had tucked away half a dozen pairs of flimsy Cellophane dust-goggles. He had pinched a piece of netting from a truck's camouflage to drape over his helmet-both for his personal camouflage and for swishing away flies. He had bound up the desert sores on the backs of his hands...
...score is what counts. Thus Washington residents, from Cabinet members to White House flunkeys, mesmerized by the big talk of the Redskins' Big Chief, George P. Marshall, trooped into Griffith Park last week, convinced that it was all over but the whoopee, and all set to drape the Washington Monument with red bunting after the game...
...from India, Tibet and China; of sheep which live in the outer Hebrides on the Isles of Harris and Lewis, from which must come all real, native-spun yarns for tweeds. It is because he has known the mysteries of the notch lapel, the peak lapel and the semi-drape lapel. . . because he has heard tales to the effect that side-vents were originally made for grouse shooting, and has dreamed of fine virgin wool that has been stored on the wharves of Glasgow for over seventy-five years. But, most important of all, it is because he originally...