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Dankgebet. Next day's ceremonies in Cologne were even more impressive. In an extraordinary exhibition of railroad efficiency German trains had brought an estimated 2,000,000 people to the Rhine city. No sooner had they left the station than they were handed lapel buttons marked "The Rhineland is Free." On every street corner Brownshirts were handing out paper flags by the dozen. From noon on all traffic was halted in the centre of the city. The square before Cologne's lace-spired cathedral was black with Germans, tears in their eyes, singing...
...House a fine new green carpet had been laid. Potted palms and photographers' lights were rigged around the rostrum. The hands of the clock (substituted for those stolen last summer) stood erect at 12 when gaunt, bushy-browed Speaker Byrns, a pink carnation in his lapel, whammed down his gavel, brought 366 magpie Members of the House to comparatively silent order. Democratic Floor Leader William Brockman ("Tallulah's Father") Bankhead, ill throughout the last session, uprose to request unanimous consent for the House to recess subject to the call of the Speaker so that President Roosevelt might deliver...
Invited as guest of honor to a London banquet, Professor Henry Edward Armstrong, 87, Ph. D.. LI. D., D. Sc., famed British chemist and oldest Fellow of the Royal Society, appeared in brown velvet jacket and bright magenta waistcoat with one mauve lapel, one blue. Chirped he: "I want to do everything that everybody else doesn't do. I am trying my hardest to overcome the indecent shyness of Englishmen...
...jackets of blue gabardine with crimson trim, two small H's on the collar lapel, a blue cap with a small crimson H, blue knickers, red stockings, and a red tie, all go to make the uniform of the Ski Team members...
...Condon, famed for his part in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, neither drinks, smokes nor swears. He needed no stimulation to wear a U. S. flag on his coat lapel, explain to the Wisconsin stranger that he felt deeply sorry for Convict Bruno Hauptmann...