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...Seattle, Wash., with only the waist-swung dollar watch and gap-toothed grin missing, Deri Erickson marched with his goat in a children's pet parade, made spectators gasp at his resemblance to Mahatma Gandhi...
...Commission split with his President and his party when he said: "Our imports today are at a very low ebb. We're not being flooded by imports. Our relations abroad are already bad enough. If you want an embargo, go ahead and pass this bill." That no last-gasp Republican tariff bill should pass the House was the firm purpose of the Democratic majority...
...summoned a second time to the Presidential Palace he was bidden to sit down by Der Reichspräsident for what Germans call a "conference of four eyes"-i. e. not even a secretary was present. Called in for a moment, State Secretary Dr. Otto Meissner emerged to gasp, "Extraordinary cordiality...
...recent vintage, the offering this week at the Wilbur is concerned with marriage and executed in the breezy fashion popularized by Noel Coward. Henry Hull parades around in a water-soaked derby, a full dress suit, and a baby-pink blanket in a manner that would make Alfred Lunt gasp in admiration...
...feet heavily manacled, hobbled forward; how the back of the prisoner's neck was shaved "to better expose his flesh to the sharp knife of 'the widow' [guillotine]." Then ''like a flash the neck piece clamped Gorgulov into position and, before he could gasp, the knife, well weighted, fell nine feet. . . . There was no autopsy...