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...near the wall he gazed for silent sorrowful minutes into the face of his dead friend and Secretary of War, James William Good. After the President returned, the Cabinet, the Supreme Court, Senators, Representatives, army officers, foreign envoys stood by for the simple funeral service. The President sat motionless, with bowed head, in a damask-covered gilt chair. His eyes followed the casket as it was borne away from the White House to the beat of muffled drums for its last journey to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Social engagements at the White House (including the Cabinet dinner and the Diplomatic reception...
Throughout a solemn night, members of the Foreign Office stood around the catafalque, raised high above the speaker's tribune in the Reichstag, as rigidly motionless as the great dreary candles. Near was a very showy wreath blazoned with a crown and W from onetime Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm. Next day Stresemann was buried with peaceful pomp. Not a militarist, there was not a uniformed soldier in his cortege, which was led by members of his Leipzig student corps, bearing his student cap, which now lies with him in his grave. The funeral's pace...
Around Nogales, Ariz., raged a terrific electric storm. At intervals the blinding flashes revealed a dark horseman, bowed in his saddle, motionless on the plain. When the storm cleared, searchers found the horseman to be Rancher Roy Sorrell. Both he and his mount had been electrocuted, left stiffly standing...
...again they fell to. The young, less experienced, saw his opponent's blade arch, flicker, fall. Cleanly the sabre skewered his face from nose to mouth. He stood motionless...
High over the Austrian and Swiss Alps last week drifted a mountainous white cloud. Slowly it flattened out until it covered most of Bavaria and the lower Rhineland, hung motionless in the air for three days. Astronomer Director Wolf of the Königstuhl Observatory near Heidelberg squinted at the white pall through telescopes and announced that it was a mass of finely powdered lava blown high in the air from erupting Vesuvius (TIME. June 17). He warned Bavarians to expect the usual volcanic twilight phenomenon - the whole sky turning orange at sunset and staying so long after...