Word: strode
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...Vienna, Austria, a fortnight ago, a policeman strode up to one Michael O'Flaherty, tourist, and informed him that because he had dropped a tram car ticket on the street he was liable to pay a fine of 8½ schillings ($1.25) for "littering...
...Maidstone Jail, Kentshire, there strode last week the irrepressible Horatio Bottomley, founder of that broadly humorous weekly John Bull, which was bought more largely by British soldiers in France than any other magazine...
Lastly Chief Justice Buzdugan strode forward, determined not to be laughed at. Shrewd, he muttered his oath rapidly and almost inaudibly, scarcely attracting the attention of His Majesty, whose eyes still rested with a twinkle on the unfortunate Patriarch...
Into the grand ballroom of the Hotel Sherman, Chicago, last week strode Chicago's Mayor, William Hale Thompson. Thereupon a band of Chicago high school students (on special vacation for the day) played the Mayor's campaign anthem, "America First, Last and Always," and a sextette of uniformed Chicago policemen harmonized on the same hymn...
...Hullo old fellow!" boomed Laborite Henderson, M. P., as M. Rosengolz strode...