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...manager was made ready on the operating table while the tall thin man whipped off his coat, rolled up his sleeves, put on a surgeon's white robe. A quick deft incision and a few minutes later the tall thin man had excised the bus manager's ruptured appendix. Such was the first operation performed by tall, thin Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, brother of the Constitution sponsor (see p.11), since he became President Hoover's Secretary of the Interior...
Chief Justice Hughes is having the most enjoyable time of his career on the Supreme bench. When delivering an opinion, he throws back his black robe, lifts his white head, speaks out in a voice so loud and clear that John Marshall's bust trembles in its niche...
...scenes in which Swanson tries to live up to the rumor that there is a dash of insanity in her family. It is too bad that a picture which is really good entertainment should suffer from sloppy photography (e.g. the shot of Swanson drying herself in a towel robe after a shower, in which the spectator is allowed to discover that she has been taking a shower in a brassiere). Too free play has been given to the famed Swansonian mannerisms, goo goo eyeing and curling her upper lip to show off her teeth. Best shot: the fadeout, with Miss...
Anyone can see that the priests are popular, that Buddhism is popular in Siam. The eighty-odd French and English cars in King Prajadhipok's garage are all the color of a Buddhist's robe, yellow, national color of Siam...
...proud that I sit in the senate of the church as a cardinal, a senate of 70 members from all parts of the world, and when I sit there as a cardinal, under my cardinal's robe is a heart that pulsates with the highest sentiments of gratitude to the almighty God that I am at the same time an American citizen...