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Three young burglars with handkerchiefs over their faces and guns in their hands entered a dark house in Santa Monica, Calif. A man came down the stairway. The burglars held him up, then one ejaculated: "Oh, gee, it's Doug Fairbanks! I hate to do this but I need the money." Fairbanks chatted with him, gave him $100 cash, ushered him out. Upstairs, Mary Pickford Fairbanks listened silently, hid her expensive jewels...
...Price, opposing Representative Reece in the G. O. P. primary, loudly resented the President's "intrusion." declared: "The time hasn't come when any man, before offering himself for office, must make a pilgrimage to the distant shrine of the great political boss and humbly climb up the golden stairway to the throne and kiss his majesty's great...
...desks. Purple behind his pince nez, Prime Minister Tardieu shook his fist, shouted: "You have no right to say that!" Prudently President of the Chamber Fernand Bouisson clapped his silk hat on his head, stalked from the room. Chunky M. Herriot hopped down from the tribune, started down the stairway that faces the section where sit deputies of the right (Monarchist) wing. Instantly they were on their feet, rushed menacingly towards him. Then up rose Minister of War Andre Maginot, six-feet-seven and broad in proportion. He planted himself between M. Herriot and his foes. M. Herriot suddenly detoured...
...cargo space. There are no boats on any ocean so frequently painted, furiously scrubbed, resolutely polished as the Dutch. On the Rotterdam a relay of tiny Dutch pages, with faces as round and red as Edam cheeses, stand all day and half the night beside the First Class main stairway, to dash forward and flick away the minute specks of dirt left by the shoes of otherwise cleanly ladies and gentlemen...
...Presidency was moved 200 ft. westward last week when President Hoover officially crossed West Executive Avenue. Flanked by Secretaries George Akerson and Walter Newton, the President marched up the steep outside steps of the State, War & Navy building, climbed the sharply curving inside stairway to the third floor, entered the ornate office of General John Joseph Pershing, Chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission. There he was officially greeted by his Secretaries of State and of War who work in the same building. Clerks peeped in at him, buzzed with excitement at having "the Chief" under their roof...