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Even the aisles in Fenway Park had filled up a half an hour before game time Tuesday night. It was Johnny Pesky Night, as well as the first of a three-game series with the Chicago White Sox. At 8:15 the announcer strode to the microphone at home plate as the two teams lined up on the foul lines...
Times had changed from those exhilarating days when The Plan was going to cure the depression and Dr. Townsend strode into Washington with 25 million signatures in his pocket to tell Congress that if it didn't like his plan there would be a different Congress, and if the President didn't like it, there would be a different President. Money had gotten a little short to support the big lobby which Townsend still doggedly maintains in Washington. But the doctor had found a cure. Said he: "I had to find something we could sell to the public...
...romantic poet; he is far closer to Bernard Shaw's description of him as "a merry soul, a jolly fellow, who could not only carry his splendid burthen of genius, but swing it around, toss it up and catch it again, and whistle a tune as he strode along...
...them trouble. But the Maceos' biggest enterprise, the Balinese Room, is built at the end of a pier; liquor and gambling apparatus had a way of disappearing before the Rangers got in. When the coppers appeared, the band struck up The Eyes of Texas, and the head waiter strode up to give them a hearty, if overly triumphant welcome...
...tawny Tory Major Legge-Bourke rose, bitterly explained he had tossed it at the Foreign Secretary to suggest he should "put on another record." Icily the Speaker declared: "I now direct the honorable and gallant gentleman, because of that act, to leave this House." Palefaced, Legge-Bourke bowed and strode from the chamber. The fact was that neither Morrison nor Legge-Bourke nor any other honorable gentleman had advanced a policy...