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Just then I happened to run into Mary near by and casually informed her what had happened. Her reaction was decisive. She banged her cap on her head, her blue eyes blazed, and she strode towards the milling mob to set upon the British sailors singlehanded. But unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) the sailors had disappeared. And a highly frustrated Mary seethed all over the place...
Associate Justice Hugo La Fayette Black strode into the Supreme Court Chamber and sat down, cracking a precedent as he did so. Attorneys decently averted their eyes; a court clerk whispered into the Justice's-ear. Out scurried Justice Black, at length floated in again, now properly swathed in his black judicial robe...
...pudgy face of James Caesar Petrillo* was wreathed in smiles. The boss of A.F. of L. Musicians' Union strode through his big office high in Manhattan's General Electric Building, sat down to thumb happily through a neat nine-page contract. His guests-officers of the nation's record companies-were glum...
...Samuel bowed, strode out, returned to Madrid, where he prepared for a trip to London. If he had Franco's answer, he gave no sign...
Tanned, jut-jawed deputy OPAdministrator Chester Bowles strode bravely into Washington. Four hours later, he called in the press. Reporters took a long, sympathetic look at an able new man in a jinxed job. After two years of rationing, OPA was still unworkable, still unlovable. Two former OPA business managers (ex-Administrator Leon Henderson, ex-Deputy Lou Maxon) had charged bravely in, flounced out later, muttering and muttered...