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West Point is primarily associated in the public mind with rigidly erect, flawlessly neat, machinelike companies of cadets marching and countermarching over their parade ground on the Hudson Palisades. General Stewart was an ideal superintendent in such a conception: 31 years an infantryman, an expert and exacting drillmaster...
With head erect, refusing to be blindfolded, he faced the firing squad of six soldiers commanded by an officer. One last glance at the sun he took before he resigned himself to the inevitable. But as his glance swept downward he saw three U. S. newspaper correspondents and, recognizing them merely as foreigners, he waved his hand cheerily, calling out in English to them, "goodbye...
...Erect and martial, President Generalfeldmarschall Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg arrived at Tannenberg, East Prussia, there to unveil a War memorial to the soldiers who fell in the historic Battle of Tannenberg...
...TIME, Oct. 1, 1923), he traveled to the U. S. to plead the cause of his mutilated country. Standing erect, well over six feet tall, gaunt & sinewy, his grizzled beard almost covering his necktie, he is a commanding figure. And speaking a dozen languages fluently?English almost perfectly?with a rare gift for oratory and inescapable charm, he has made himself a world-wide figure, known intimately, and usually beloved, by the statesmen of at least two continents. It is doubtful if the word of any living Hungarian carries as much moral weight as that of Count Apponyi...
Upon a litter lay Empress Nagako. Erect and stern, Emperor Hirohito surveyed the scene before him. To one side court bards chanted a portion of the classics in a low tone. The great of the Empire surrounded the Imperial group. In it was Premier Güchi Tanaka, clad immaculately in Occidental formal attire. Hands placed together, he prayed, standing, eyes wide open, before a flag-adorned shrine...