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...Reichstag reassembled. Business urgent and important necessitated an extraordinary session, but the affairs of state were not so important and urgent that the Deputies did not throng to the ceremony of unveiling marble busts of Germany's first two Presidents: Friedrich Ebert (died in office, Feb. 28, 1925) and Generalfeld-marschall Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und von Hinderburg...
...play football?" but "Can he dance?" is the question the college girl asks today. No admiring throng of females trails the football heroes from the Stadium. The husky halfback who risks his neck and limbs for his alma mater might just as well spend his time learning the black bottom, as far as the girls are concerned...
Clad in his marshal's uniform, with the baton of his rank in his left hand, the aged Hindenburg, almost 80, passed through the cheering throng, stopping now and then to say a few words to a former comrade-in-arms. He is grim, cool, calm, yet genial enough on occasion. Germans recall a story about their President that exemplifies his peculiar wit: One of his old friends is alleged to have asked...
...Little good will ever come out of the fantastic schemes of wholesale enthusiasms," said Bishop Slattery. "We cannot be lead into improving our lines along with a throng of fellowmen, and radical plans for overturning existing life at one, blow will never succeed...
...throng burst into "The International," as Laborite George Lansbury, M. P., beat time jovially with his large bowler hat. With him stood the sole British Communist M. P., Shapurji Saklatvala, carrying a large bouquet of red roses for Mme. Rosengolz...