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...Sedan Day. Moro than 200,000 veterans took part in a parade through the town. The feature of the significant gathering was a powerful, moving and emotional speech made by a Catholic priest. In conclusion he said: " I ask you Germans, are you ready to take a triple oath for Germany...
...swear it! " thundered the reply" Then lift your hands and take the oath," concluded the priest, whereupon 200,000 raised two fingers of the right hand...
...weedy. Still, some of the imported seed has fallen into good ground and blossomed as permanent pictures on the American mind. We no longer think of Russia in terms of Cossacks, but in terms of wooden soldiers; Balieff is mightier than Lenin; and any American will give his oath that the Moscow artists are far more impressive behind their Smith Brothers beards than any Soviet that ever shot a princess. Russian restaurants are an established industry. Every dancer on the stage is stamped with the spirit of the Steppes. For a time it seemed as though the uneasy head...
...story tells of a princess. Into her lonely castle comes a nobleman (Conway Tearle) in the guise of a servant?bound by oath to her brother's service? for a term of years. Shortly thereafter comes the sinister Due de Tours (Wallace Beery) seeking her love. How she repulsed him and how the servant rescued her from his drunken embrace comprise the burden of the plot. There is abundant death and sword play. There is sentiment and spectacle. There is an absence of pretense...
...next morning, the oath of office having been wired from Washington, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as President of the United States, by his father, a Justice of the Peace...