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...brought with it a certain sadness, while the stuffy air was redolent of toiling Freshmen. Moreover, little barbed memories of Freshman year and History I still lingered in the blue atmosphere of the place, burying their stinging noses in Vag's scarred memory. He brushed them manfully aside, and strode straight for the Economics shelf. For it was two o'clock on Sunday afternoon and Widener was closed...
...last month the brothers strode into court attired in black Homburgs, black overcoats, elegantly-gathered silk scarves. Six-foot Edith wore a hat like a medieval mitre clapped dead-straight on her resolute forehead. The courtroom was packed with publishers, booksellers, literary celebrities, including pro-Sitwell witnesses, Novelist Charles Morgan (The Fountain), and Sinologist Arthur Waley...
Harvard gasped, and Joseph Lyford strode into the Crimson office with blood in his eye. He quickly established that the Crimson itself had pulled a hoax: it had faked its picture by posing someone else at the bookshelves and tacking on the body a photograph of Lyford's head...
...stooped, burly figure wearing a black Homburg hat and puffing a cigar strode through the City's ruins. When he came to a puddle of water several inches deep he waded through it. "Stick to it, Winnie," shouted the people as they recognized their Prime Minister. "We won't crack up!" "No sir," he replied, "we won't crack...
...last week. From the packed galleries above him angry Bolivian spectators hissed & booed, kept up a steady chant of "Down with the Jews! Death to the Jews!" Jingoistic Congressmen waggled their fingers under his nose, made long speeches about national honor. Then, with deliberate gait, gumshoeing Deputy Jordan Velasco strode forward, lifted his eyes to the balconies, bellowed out: "I am proud of being an accuser. And, without wishing to compare myself with Zola, I accuse." Defendant Diez was on trial for selling out to an illegal passport ring peddling to Jewish refugees...