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This Lewis N. White was as deliberate as Clothier, but in another fashion. He did not stroll. He lolled. He seemed to drawl with his feet. Between points he took his ease, but as soon as the ball was put into play he became surprisingly galvanized. He beat Takeiichi Harada, seeded Japanese, and got into the finals. His match against Champion Tilden was not exciting. The report had gotten about the clubhouse that the champion was planning to make a four-set match of it and to run the Texan ragged with drives to the corners, trap shots, and every...
...Signalizing the advent of summer weather, the President went forth on his daily stroll wearing a straw...
...curtain rises. Two musicians?the first violin and the cellist?are seated, chatting. Conductor Stokowski strolls vaguely in from the wings. He bows. Puzzled applause from the audience?murmurs of "But good heavens, Victoria, where is the orchestra? . . . Down behind that backdrop? . . . I think it is simply too quaint. . . ." That no orchestra lurks behind the backdrop is clearly demonstrated when Mr. Stokowski raises his baton and the scrannel strains of the violin and cello tremble, quite unsupported, in the hostile air. . . . Now another musician comes in. He carries a horn and a handkerchief and flops down in the first convenient...
...Bayard Brown is a man of about the average height, as elegantly dressed that night as he ever was for an Easter Sunday stroll on Fifth Avenue. His figure is rounded but his clothes fitted perfectly...
George Binney (leader of the 1924 Oxford arctic flight, holder of the furthest north flying record-N. L. 80 deg., 15 min.) : "He will stroll back to Europe, I have little doubt...