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...indicate that poison gas and incendiary bombs had been dropped. He coughed in good earnest as a smoke screen smelling like burning rubber billowed down on him. Suddenly the street was streaked with cars, motorcycles and bicycles scudding past, carrying members of youth organizations, official and semiofficial. Sweating in khaki sun-helmets and heavy khaki coats, they went into action shouting at traffic, patrolling the street to see that Sato had his pails of water outside, shouting instructions to "Keep calm." Fifteen thousand soldiers helped out these volunteers. Stretcher bearers wearing gas masks picked out grinning civilians, bandaged them...
...over which his wife presides as schoolmarm. Calvin Coolidge in a cowboy suit, hoeing in a smock. Mah Jong. Marathon dances. Beauty contests. Rum row. Judge Webster Thayer leaving the trial of Sacco & Vanzetti. Automobiles being made. Superfluous automobiles being burned. Tin-can tourists in booming Florida. Women in khaki bloomers. Capt. Lindbergh at Mitchell Field. Gertrude Ederle. Aimee McPherson. A marriage in diving suits. A jazzband playing on the wings of an airplane. Prosperity. Herbert Hoover and Alfred Emanuel Smith. "A chicken in every pot." WALL ST. LAYS AN EGG-Variety. "The year 1931 will offer rewards for investors...
...tending a machine in a candy factory at 80 rubles per month. Thence he went to Leningrad, took another job as chauffeur for Intourist at 250 rubles. At the end of three months he returned to the U. S., second class, wearing a wrinkled brown suit, khaki shirt, flannel tie, battered cap, carrying two pieces of luggage and a cardboard box. He bubbled with enthusiasm over the Russians who, he felt, had "the answer to the future." Such is his practical background for the forthcoming investigation of U. S.-U. S. S. R. relations...
...broad Boulevard Alameda from the Jockey Club to the Plaza de Armas. Chileans grew round-eyed as they passed, line after line, 10,000 strong, to the music of 24 bands. Most of the units wore blue overalls with overseas caps and belts, country regiments were in khaki or grey. None bore arms, but newspapers learned that the Fascist White Guard had collected $360,000 from its members and spent it on tanks, field guns, rifles, revolvers, trucks, planes and hospital supplies...
...were plenty of seats for the public. President of the court was Major General Winston Dugan, a former aide-de-camp of King George. On either side of him sat three other grave, ruddy-faced officers. Campaign ribbons glowed like little flower beds in the broad expanse of their khaki chests...