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What the sentence consisted of was "reduction of four numbers in grade," meaning that Colonel Williams now stands No. 22 instead of No. 18 in the queue of Colonels waiting to be made Brigadier Generals. He will have to wait in line about six months or a year more than he would had he not invited General Butler to his party that night. Later, Colonel Williams was transferred from San Diego to San Francisco, put in charge of the western recruiting service...
Died. Che Mah, 88, self-styled "smallest man in the world; in Chicago. He was 28 inches in height with a queue 13 feet long. Imported from Choo Sang (island) by P. T. Barnum in 1881, he became wealthy from self-exhibition, retired in 1890, was twice married to U. S. women, by the first of whom he had a son of normal size...
...been praying for hours in the street outside the clinic crossed themselves once again; rose with stiffened knees and chilled bodies. "Requiem in aetemam dona eis, Domine," prayed all society. Lying in state at Malines on Sunday, the frail old body was approached with reverence by a long queue. They touched the hems o? hio robes, they brough/ pious tokens and keepsakes for the cold fingers to brush. Toward evening the line still stretched far down the dusky avenue. There was rioting before the doors were shut. The funeral was to take place during the week, probably a state funeral...
...same hour a crowd was assembling in the street. It was not just a street crowd, for in it were women of fashion who drove up in well appointed limousines. All comers without regard to race, religion or record in the social register were lined up in a big queue. Shortly before 10 o'clock about 100 were admitted to the building, but the rest never got any further. An officer in full uniform wearing a colonel's insignia, jauntily swinging a bamboo cane and with a chest swelling beneath a row of ribbands, came up attended by his wife...
...later, a crowd of people assembled outside and inside the gaudy Sveti Krai Cathedral whose interior is decorated with numerous and immense rainbow-colored portraits painted on the walls and pillars. All had come to pay their last respects to the remains of General Gheorghieff. In a long, solemn queue, the funeral procession, headed by the Cabinet, trailed slowly, mournfully through the grimy Sofia streets and at length drew near to the Cathedral. There was a blinding flash, a terrific roar and the entire south wall and a large section of the roof of the Cathedral crumbled and crashed...