Word: queues
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...Coolidge has lately adopted the following style of handshaking: Standing next to a queue of visitors and facing them obliquely as they approach, he extends his hand, grasping that of the first man in the line. Shaking the hand, smiling at the visitor and saying a word, he draws his arm back, pulling the visitor past him. Any inclination to linger on the part of the visitor is forestalled as the President extends his hand to the next and draws him, likewise, past. This practice is said to result in an economy in time...
...Heidelberg is occupied by French troops, the funeral procession was deprived of any military pomp. A vast crowd of notables, who had arrived in 43 special trains, formed a long and impressive queue of mourners. Among them were Frau Ebert, two Fraulein Ebert, Ebert's only son, a brother and a sister, Chancellor Luther, Reichstag President Lobe, ex-Chancellor Marx...
...five years the First Presbyterian Church of New York City has had a queue of people waiting at its doors long before church time. For five years its pews have been jammed, its aisles utilized wherever possible. Yet not for five years has a Presbyterian preacher been the regular occupant of this popular Presbyterian pulpit. The occupant has been a Baptist all this time, a member of the Faculty of Union Theological Seminary, Manhattan, whom the church invited in 1919 to serve as special preacher. The Baptist's name is Dr. Henry Emerson Fosdick. Vigorous, vauntless, straightforward, this...
...Canon Barnes is probably the greatest inspirational preacher in England today. It was a Congregational paper (Barnes is, of course, Anglican?equivalent of Protestant Episcopal in the U. S.) which declared that since Dr. John H. Jowett died (TIME, Dec. 31), no preacher has been able to create a queue outside a church-door in London except Canon Barnes...
...queue of people waited all night and all day outside the doors of His Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne, Australia. At an auction sale, held from the stage, tickets were sold−some at 100 guineas each. It was Dame Nellie Melba's farewell appearance−Melba, for over 20 years the world's greatest singer, true successor to Patti. The vast audiences went wild with joy, cheered and cheered−and eight carloads of flowers were carried to the stage...