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From along the iron fence on Pennsylvania Avenue the shrill voices penetrated to the White House. At first President Hoover refused to believe that the husband of Mary, his only sister, was in such unseemly trouble. Confirmation reduced the President to embarrassed silence. He dreaded the jokes, the wisecracks, the Wet smirks that were sure to follow. Of course he was not the keeper of his plumber brother-in-law but he could not disavow him publicly. Now he could somewhat understand how Dry Senator Fess felt when his son Lowell was caught brawling in New York speakeasies (TIME, June...
...Shrill sirens, pop-popping police outriders zipped the Lavals through capital traffic to a four-story brick house near Dupont Circle, the pretentious mansion of U. S. Ambassador to France Walter Evans Edge, friend...
...purpose of fighting in a general election." Major Gwilym Lloyd George, M. P. (loyal son) promptly resigned his minor post in the Government (Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade) in protest. Miss Megan Lloyd George M. P. (loyal daughter) began her campaign for re-election with this shrill cry: "I shall fight on as a Liberal?under the same leader?Lloyd George!" Invalid Lloyd George himself called Labor Leader Henderson to his bedside at Churt. They talked for an hour, presumably about joining forces, have long been expected...
...Kremlin where, in the Central Executive Committee room, Mr. Shaw leaped nimbly to the rostrum, let out several shrill whoops to test the acoustics...
...dawn the sound of drums and shrill fifes commenced. It was Mevloud, 1,361st anniversary of the birth of Mohammed, a celebration that lasts 28 days in Meknes. There the rites are hotly colored with Negro practices from the Sudan. White-robed Moors filled the narrow streets, gathered in shouting groups around the throbbing drums...