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...knots formed about the House floor. Veterans, committee chairmen, held court. The four women members, all in black, greeted their many admirers. New York's Snell (Rules Committee) stood behind his aisle table, frowning, sharpening a pencil with a blunt watch chain knife. Leader Tilson beamed at his flock and rearranged neatly typed resolutions on blue paper. The galleries, splotched with color, were long ago overflowing. Mrs. Alice Longworth, the Speaker's wife, was there, incognito, because she failed to remove her brown hat and reveal her gleaming hair...
Notre Dame looked frail; the Notre Dame cheering section was weak, while two thousand soldiers wrapped in their grey capes roared. They expected to see famed Chris Cagle, the Army halfback, rush through the little men in front of him. Instead, whenever he took the ball, a flock of Notre Dame players started at him like birds which he could not brush away. In the second half it was not Cagle's brilliance but the slow rush of the whole team that brought the ball up the field for a touchdown; somehow Notre Dame struggled back again with...
Gene Shank, who once held the record for looping-the-loop in an airplane, flew after a flock of blue teal in an airplane. He went 80 miles an hour; the ducks went much faster...
...show he has not forgotten the faithful of his flock abandoned by this hegira, he leaves the following suggestions for their guidance...
...early as she could remember, Christabel Caine was conscious of her beauty, conscious of her power to make people serve her and adore her. When she writes a book of poetry that achieves success, new horizons open up before her. Leaving a flock of dear old doting Quaker aunts, she departs for New York to be Bohemian...