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...Japanese policeman waved them back. The tall swart man exclaimed impatiently, "I am the Brazilian Ambassador!" and strode on. Two policemen rushed up. Swiftly Ambassador R. de Lima Silva rapped one of them across the knuckles with his cane, and as the other still came on whacked him over the head. Then the crowd rushed him, his dog, his wife...
...TIME has many virtues but I wish to speak particularly of your piquant, picturesque, poetical handling of our somewhat prosaic mother tongue. I think your ability in this line reached its climax in your issue of Nov. 16, p. 20, col. 3, when you say, "The thunder that darkly strode from the organ pipes . ..." Ah! that I might have been there to see! Weird, mystic shapes, tremulous, vibrant, sonorous, which "strode" with intangible form down the dim cathedral aisles. Why, friends, I am 77 years old and I haven't had such a thrill (literary thrill) since...
...went up the steps two at a time, and entered the elevator before the policemen chatting in the lobby had recognized him. "Where is the Police Commissioner's office?" He was let out at the second floor, "strode vigorously" down a long corridor, "pushed aside a heavy door," and went into the Commissioner's office beyond. He stayed with his predecessor 17 minutes, and strode out. Photographers were waiting for him. "Will you pose?" He hesitated, nodded. "Make it snappy now!" Reporters began to ask questions: "Have you been sworn in as Police Commissioner?" "No, I have not." "Will...
...Then in strode Rudolph Valentino, languorous Don of the cinemas, accompanying well-known "Laura Gould." They seated themselves and before long the assembly became notably more convivial. Mr. Valentino was reported in despatches to have achieved a state of mind in which it occurred to him to quaff a mixture of champagne and beer...
...evening last week a thickset, oval-faced Chinaman with eyes like pinpoints of black steel, strode up and down the station platform at Langfang. The twilight gathered about him. Awed travelers whispered that he was "Little Hsu," the son of "Old Hsu," who was President of China from 1918 to 1922, and that he was the most trusted friend of the present "Chief Executive of China," Tuan...