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...platform before the Philadelphia Lecture Assembly strode slender, freckle-faced Eva Le Gallienne of Manhattan's Civic Repertory Theatre and strapping, hollow-eyed Ethel Barrymore. Invited to address the Assembly earlier in the week, Miss Le Gallienne failed to appear, was now making amends by speaking gratis. Several hundred Philadelphia socialite women, including Mrs. Upton Favorite, Mrs. Trenchard Emlen Newbold and Mrs. Arthur B. Waters, the Assembly's director, who had scolded her roundly and threatened to sue, appeared to hear her apologize. But Miss Le Gallienne had no apology to make. She rapped...
...occasion. When the Examination began, he propped said books upon his desk and plied away prodigiously, without interruption, for some fifteen minutes. Tiring of the copyist's art, he then began peering at his neighbors' efforts. To no avail. After ten minutes of futile endeavor, he collected his belongings, strode to the door, and handed in his work. As he prepared to leave, the proctor called him back. Slightly perturbed, he returned, and stood, looking. "You have not signed your bluebook," the menial said. And that...
...their ankle-length winter overcoats and turnip helmets, filled the vast Red Square. All Moscow turned out to see who would bear the ashes of Comrade Katayama to their niche in the Kremlin wall. Millions of eyes fastened on a swart, powerfully built man in a long greatcoat who strode bareheaded through the snowstorm: Chief Pallbearer Josef Stalin...
Into the anteroom of Undersecretary Dean Achesonon the second floor of the Treasury Building in Washington, big-framed Jesse Holman Jones and Henry Morgenthau Jr. strode at 9:30 one morning last week...
...crowded Federal courtroom in Oklahoma City one day last week, middle- aged Charles Frederick Urschel climbed down from the witness stand, strode over to a row of prisoners. He stopped in front of a strapping, humped-nosed fellow named Albert Bates. "That's one of the men who kidnapped me," said...