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...third session. Three hours before sundown Premier Azana announced to the Cortes that the cabinet had asked President Niceto Alcala Zamora to commute the sentence to life imprisonment, that the President had signed the papers. Rightist deputies cheered, those of the Left hissed. There were half a dozen fist fights. Big-jowled General Sanjurjo grinned, ordered another vermouth...
Through this frolicking crowd of plain people in shirt sleeves moved a tall lanky figure extending a friendly welcome to all. His smooth white hand shook many a hard and horny fist. Outwardly he was with this throng but plainly not of it. His blue coat and grey trousers were wrinkled but he wore a necktie. His hair, above a high intellectual forehead, was a silky grey but his pale blue eyes were young, fresh, benign. His manner with the masses was one of studied informality. Yet he was their particular idol, Norman Mattoon Thomas, Socialist nominee for the Presidency...
...father will soon be home again and a third Reich is in sight!" Recent changes are unimportant compared to those that are coming. Prussia's iron fist has again been raised and her enemies will soon be scattered...
...escorted to the platform by a delegation of ladies headed by Mrs. Alvin Hert, vice-chairwoman of the National Committee. From the first bang of his gavel, for which was later substituted a bungstarter, it was apparent that stout Mr. Snell had the convention in his round red fist...
...went to South America to collect rare birds for his own amusement, but he was offered so much money for his collection that he decided to make a business of animal-catching. Now, after five trips around the world, 40 Pacific crossings, after knocking out an orangutan in a fist fight, collecting hundreds of wild beasts in his own depot at Singapore and a number of scars on his person, he is famed as one of the world's leading animal catchers. He has supplied many a U. S. zoo with first specimens, stocked the Dallas...