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...Sejm was not in session, but there might be some politicians skulking in the Parliament building. There were. A committee, sparsely attended, was mulling drowsily over the War Department appropriations in the budget. Suddenly the door flew open. A big, fierce-mustached man, clad in an old faded uniform, strode in. He sat down at the committee table, folded his arms, scowled, sniffed the air contemptuously, said nothing...
Janitors were routed out. Feverishly they put the great hall of the Sejm in shape for a meeting. Meanwhile jangling telephones roused Deputies from their beds, brought them scurrying. When all was ready Marshal Pilsudski strode in, obviously in the best of humors. Mounting the tribune he made one of those booming patriotic speeches beloved of Poles. His major theme: "Conditions in Europe at the present time do not warrant the abolition of armaments, and so long as there is the necessity for an army we might as well have a good...
...Royal Highness seemed a boy; at 25, a lad; today, at 32, he passes for a youth. When he strode into The Bricklayers' Arms, a harmless enough "pub," shivering worn-out bums of 30 felt return the lively spring of their dead youth...
...Borah of Idaho ceased sitting up at night to read about the Hall-Mills murder trial; Senator Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada forgot for the moment that he was being sued for a personal note of $6,232.50; many another lawmaker laid down the cares of domestic life and strode up the steps of the Capitol. In the Senate chamber the gavel of Vice President Dawes smote his desk; in the House the gavel of Speaker Nicholas Longworth did likewise. The 69th Congress had begun its last and its "lame duck" session...
...silences-to such a one this story of Mitya's adolescent love for unanswering Katya tolls familiarly. Mitya did love the young, amorous girl. When she put her little hand on his arm and looked up at him, he was very happy and not a little proud, and "strode along, like a country boy, so fast that she could hardly keep up with him." There were boyish jealousies. "In his eyes all that went on between them was pure, beautiful and charming. But it was quite different as soon as he thought of somebody else in his place. . . . Where...