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...WHITE SHIELD...
Senators often receive editorial comment during hot debates, sympathizers cheering them on, opponents flaying them. To barbed shafts from the side of the arena, Senators usually turn the shield of their dignity or, if they have any, their humor. But when Senator Caraway received in his mail the Herald Tribune's editorials clipped out by a Dr. J. Clarence Sharp of Manhattan who said he thought the Herald Tribune had "great courage," something happened to Senator Caraway. He instantly wrote Dr. Sharp a note of which the following was the main paragraph...
...largest submarine slid down the stocks and out upon the Piscataqua River. Beside her stood her son, Charles Francis Adams Jr. and Admiral Charles F. Hughes, Chief of Naval Operations. Snow was falling on her fur coat, on her bouquet of roses. Navy men pressed about her solicitously, to shield her from the storm...
than the rough contacts wherefrom they are thought to shield...
...pale grey knickerbockers, his own face even paler, darted through the police cordon, pointed a nickel revolver at Prince Umberto, fired, then tripped over a trolley track as he fired again. Instantly Brussels' famed War-time hero, Burgomaster Max sprang in front of H. R. H. to shield him. The royal chauffeur beat down the assassin's arm. A policeman struck him swiftly with his sword...