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Tall, athletic James I. Wendell came to The Hill from Wesleyan in 1913. About him, when he first strode up the Hill School hill, was glory. He was then holder of the intercollegiate record in low hurdles, had been holder of the world's record, and point winner in the 1912 Olympic games...
...President Coolidge picked up one of his new gift shotguns, strode to his new gun butts (TIME, Aug. 6), broke seven of the first nine clay pigeons that were whirred in front...
...clock struck, out upon the dance floors in 18 of the very liveliest clubs strode 18 nice-looking gentlemen whom 18 proprietors recognized, respectively as among their most regular patrons and liberal spenders...
...smile that verges easily into a sneer, a peculiar hypnotic stare, and a pantherlike bound are other useful attributes of Comrade Krylenko. On the first day of the Shahkta Trial he strode in wearing what U. S. citizens would call a hunting costume: khaki coat and breeches, soft roll collar, homespun stockings, hobnail shoes. To be sure all Russians present in the Hall of Columns were roughly attired; but Hunter Krylenko's costume seemed significant. Within a few hours he had wrung confessions from three small-fry technicians which should set them before a firing squad, and ever since...
...massive Mexican prelate who resembles in face the late, fundamentalist, teetotaling William Jennings Bryan, strode into the Vatican, last week, and climbed beamingly upstairs for a two-hour audience with The Most Blessed Father, Achilla Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XL The man from Mexico, Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, handed solemnly to the Supreme Pontiff a voluminous report signed by the dignitaries of the Mexican Episcopate, who are now in exile at San Antonio, Texas. The report states, as Archbishop Ruiz later revealed, that there has never been a more favorable time than the present to harmonize the strained...