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...diplomats of the humorless Japanese Empire ever know quite how impudently they are being negotiated with by silkily-polite Chinese statesmen, all of whom seem to have a sense of humor as irrepressible as the Chinese countenance is expressionless...
...Chamber; Representative Hobbs and his fellow-prosecutors felt it more fitting to be absent when the Senate vote was taken. Three more black leather chairs stood on the Democratic side. The centre one was occupied by small, aging Judge Ritter. his arms folded, his face pale and expressionless. At his right sat his broad-beamed Chief Counsel, Frank P. Walsh, to hire whom, according to Florida newshawks in the press gallery, Judge Ritter was obliged to mortgage his Florida home. The third chair was occupied by his local counsel from Miami. Up rose the Secretary of the Senate to read...
...rejoiced that we had outgrown the aftermath of the Civil War. Those funny figures at parade-rest look absurdly old-fashioned to us now. But do you know the most stolid and wooden and expressionless of them was in a way better sculpture than the wild things that we are setting up today...
When the Press discovered Shirley Tapp three days later, she was still on the sofa, her hair in two neat braids, her eyes closed, her body relaxed, her face expressionless. Father Tapp had explanations ready. His daughter, he declared, was "slain of the Lord." "She was saved from the sins she had committed," said old Mr. Tapp confidently, "but the sinful nature remained. Now that nature has died and her present condition occurs." He summed up: "Shirley is suffering for the whole world." Declared Mrs. Tapp: "This sort of thing is not uncommon among us. But we are mighty proud...
Back in Manhattan from a European junket, James Watson Gerard, Wartime Ambassador to Germany, windy chairman of the Committee on America Self-Contained, announced that the nation's "most influential person" is now Countess Haugwitz (Barbara Hutton). Grumped he: "There's an expressionless young woman who inherited $50,000,000 and now rushes about gathering titles, good or bad, with the speed of an antelope. She does her country no good and spends her money abroad. The result is a strong tax-the-rich sentiment that we're all going to suffer from if we've piled up a little...