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...Juan Tirade, reputed to have confessed that he hurled one of the bombs which shattered the glass of General Obregon's limousine, wounding him slightly. Because many persons thought one or more of the condemned men innocent, a huge crowd gathered outside the prison walls bearing flowers to strew upon the bodies when they should be dead...
...with memories of his famed battle "thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks of Vallom-brosa," Germany's greatest warrior showed no sign of emotion as he approached the mammoth octagon memorial, surmounted by huge, lofty towers. Said he to the dense mass of people around...
...less definite, but enthusiasts bustled around Manhattan trying to lease Madison Square Garden or the Polo Grounds, the Yankee Stadium, Cooper Union or Carnegie Hall. All were refused. Police Commissioner Joseph A. Warren of New York refused a parade permit. The enthusiasts said they would display the urns, strew Red carnations, sing the Internationale in Union Square, permitted...
...Wyoming, the Negro lion-tamer, got chewed up by the blind brown bear; how Lila, the strong woman, died lovelorn, and had the calliope and elephant cage for her funeral; how John Quincy Adams, a Negro clown, got bathed with boiling tar. Sometimes the bully-boy stops punching to strew around some casual obscenities; sometimes he just reflects, idly, wistfully, comically. At all times his book is as close to life as a stake-driver's undershirt. Admirers of realism, and Americana, must roundly applaud...
...business of the part was almost uniformly good. Mr. Tree's thrusts with his sword at the empty throne after the play scene, his returning to stroke Ophelia's hair after his great scene with her, and his coming back to strew flowers upon Ophelia's grave, though not such bad touches in themselves, are characteristic of the whole part, which is light and melodramatic. The lines of the part are spoken with sensibility and taste, and the time of the verse is good. But on account of the limited range of his voice, Mr. Tree is unable to bring...