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Since MacArthur was awarded the honorary degree in 1946, each year the carpenters have hoped that he would get back to the States in time to trod the boards they had hewn and laid, but they still may have to wait another year...
...leading elements marched right through the minefields, most of them blowing themselves up, and those who followed advanced over their own dead. When they reached the barbed wire, hundreds of Chinese flung straw mats down on the wire, then threw themselves down on the mats, and the others trod the living bridge over the wire...
...most precocious youth of 14 who ever trod the Victorian stage. He smokes, plays cards, and makes love to his piano-teacher, just as if he were 19 years old. One night he even lures his stepfather to a roisterous dinner at the Hotel des Princes, a genteel Victorian hellspot...
Roman Ham. But it is Bushman's personality which has endeared him to Chicago. The public loves Bushman because Bushman loves them-he is one of the most unabashed hams that ever trod the boards. Despite his looks, he is a kindly and jovial sort of gorilla, who often plays gently with the mice he catches in his cage. The spectacle of Bushman lying at ease like a Roman, munching grapes and gulping quart bottles of milk handed in by his keeper (when in a good mood he politely hands them back), has won the hearts of the multitude...
Best guess was that Patterson had trod on the pink toes of President Juan Jose Arévalo's "Spiritual Socialist" government by harping too strongly on the influence of Communists in Guatemala. No responsible observer has claimed that Arevalo's government is run from Moscow. But some open Communist sympathizers (the party itself is legally banned) have risen to key positions in the labor movement, and have taken advantage of government support to badger U.S. companies...