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Wearing a simple khaki uniform, no decorations, Chiang Kai-shek sat com posed and erect before the microphone...
...minutes the Generalissimo was finished. Then, for a moment, the erect shoulders slumped, the facial muscles sagged, the eyes tired. It was a second of relaxation that epitomized eight years of elemental effort...
...Cincinnati's astonishment, the Trollopes proceeded to erect what one traveler described as "the great deformity of the city" - a brick bazaar with "Gothic windows, Grecian pillars ... a Turkish dome, and Egyptian devices." Therein, they planned to sell the gewgaws of Manchester and Birmingham to the savages of Cincinnati...
With his shaved head showing only grey fuzz, his scarred face pale, Joyce stood stiffly erect in the dock, murmured: "I have heard the charge and take cognizance of it." He was also cognizant that the penalty for treason is death. Joyce had been poorly paid by the Nazis for his treasonable broadcasts, was now penniless. Under the Poor Prisoners' Defence Act, he was certified as entitled to free defense counsel. Then he was whisked to Brixton Prison in a Black Maria. On arrival, he had said: "So this is Brixton." "Yes," snapped his guard, "not Belsen...
There He Is! As the crowds roared their applause, he stood stiffly erect in a Fire-Department touring car, bowing, saluting, holding his helmet over his heart. At Lexington, where the world-heard shot was fired in 1775, citizens had raised a banner: "WELCOME GEORGE BLOOD 'N' GUTS PATTON. NICE GOING!" At Cambridge City Hall the car drove beneath arched Fire-Department ladders. Handed a gavel .made from the Washington Elm, Georgie Patton promised, "I'll cherish it forever...