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Crowds lined the corridors of New York County Courthouse and murmured as Anastasia strode through. He stared at them with hard contempt-and at the attendants who held them back and at the glare of flashbulbs touched off by his entrance. As a witness he was relaxed and polite. With pudgy fingers he smoothed his suit, touched his conservative black necktie. He was, he said in the hoarse voice of illiteracy and command, a dress manufacturer. Then, save for a few innocuous questions, he quit answering. He departed as imperiously as he had entered...
...town, saying they could not be responsible for his safety. But 15 minutes before the fight, Luis Miguel drove up to the ring. He got out of his car some distance from the gate, meticulously adjusted his embroidered cape upon his shoulder and his montera on his forehead, and strode alone toward the mob. The angry crowd fell silent and opened respectfully before him. That afternoon he put on such a show that he was carried back to his hotel on the shoulders of his fans. Bullfighting had a new king...
...instance, there was the spring day in 1926 when H. L. Mencken strode onto Boston Common, and in the presence of 2,000 cheering students, his two attorneys, and the Boston vice-squad, accepted a marked half-dollar from the Rev. J. Frank Chase in payment for the "Hatrack" issue of Mencken's American Mercury. The police and Chase's Watch and Ward Society had placed the issue under the ban because the short story "Hatrack" concerned prostitution in a small town...
...Frenchmen shuffled their feet and watched Elmer, who was nonchalantly strapping an evil-looking husking hook to his right wrist. At last the speech was over, and Elmer strode into the cornfield. He seized an ear or two, ripped the husks open with his hook and tossed them into the wagon. One of the Frenchmen spat. Then Elmer took off his shirt. "Okay, Thorson," he called to his companion, a onetime Iowa farmboy now clerking at the U.S. Embassy in Paris...
...also created an important school, was outstanding, too ... He was, however, far more of a humorist, and a twinkle always lurked in his tolerant eyes." Once, after listening to two members of the Headmasters' Association wrangling over some minor matter of undergraduate discipline, "Uncle Horace" abruptly rose and strode out of the room. "How's that debate coming out?" Fuess asked him outside. "There won't much come of it," replied Taft. "One of them never was a boy, and the other never grew...