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...Edgar Hoover and Herbert Brownell strode into the red-carpeted U.S. Senate caucus room in Washington to answer these questions. Hoover's appearance caused a sensation. As all of Washington knows, the FBI chief intensely dislikes testifying in security cases and might not have done so except to protect the FBI against the implications of Truman's speech...
Rain dripped steadily from the north portico of the White House, the Army band sounded ruffles and flourishes as. promptly at noon. President Eisenhower strode on to the porch. Around the necks of seven stiffly uneasy Korean war veterans, the President clasped star-spangled blue ribbons from which hung the nation's highest military award: the Medal of Honor. The language of the citations told of deeds of steel and fire and unyielding spirit...
...three changes of cars, to a house where a man with a Tommy gun stood guard at the door and a machine-gunner crouched over his weapon at the head of the stairs, covering the hallway. I was shown into a small, book-lined room. In a moment, in strode a trim, greying man wearing dark trousers and a white sport shirt. He walked with erect carriage and springy step. We shook hands, and he laid a sheaf of papers and a Mauser pistol on the table...
...verse and spent most of his time boozing in "doggeries" (saloons) and pasting whisky ads in the family Bible. Fed up, Minnie left with the children, and on June 6, 1870, Joaquin sailed from Portland, Ore. for San Francisco and the life of letters. Blond locks aflow, Joaquin strode down the gangplank and announced: "Let us go and talk with the poets." But Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce and the other "Bards of San Francisco Bay," as he dubbed them, refused to take Joaquin as seriously as he took himself. Undaunted, he printed up some calling cards, "Joaquin Miller: Byron...
...control. In The Cobras, she was a fakir. As the cobras, represented by Miss Ruth's arms, slithered over her head and body, she wore an impudent expression that told her audience that neither she nor the fakir took the cobras very seriously. In The Yogi, she strode on to the stage in flowing saffron robes with a long tambura (Indian lute) held at her back and her white hair wildly flying. She had first danced it in Vienna in 1908; in this appearance, she was frankly an old woman, but a triumphant old woman...