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...Anti-Saloon League, whose home and stronghold is Ohio. Hoke Donithen, Coolidge pre-Convention manager in Ohio, protested; C. C. Crabbie, Attorney General of Ohio, voiced his disapproval. Senator Willis, ponderous Ohioan, who hopes some day to follow the exalted path that the late Senator Warren G. Harding trod before his death, paid a personal call on Mr. Andrews. Anon, all the protesters came out by the same door where in they went...
...lately branched into a new field of endeavor which shows they have been reading Popular Mechanics in addition to their old favorite Gazette. Spring fever got in the bones of the department and the order went out from headquarters to sweep down the gutters. As usual, prompt execution trod on the heels of the cleansing ukase. Supplied with bright new brooms, the clean-up squad arrived to find that certain streets below Massachusetts Avenue were lined with automobiles. Thereupon, the law enforcers cleverly realized that it might be well first to remove the cars. But what consternation pervaded their ranks...
...scene in which the stage, masked only by volutes of steam, was transformed from "a wild region at the foot of a rocky mountain" to "the summit of the Valkyries' rock." Taucher, about to make his exit from the former setting, took a step into the steam, trod upon emptiness, plunged down 25 feet to the mouldy basement of the Metropolitan through a trap which had just been opened to receive scenery. Stagehands, mechanics, saw Taucher's 200-pound shape crash to the stone floor; hurried to his aid as he incredibly rose to his feet. Supported...
Said Mr. Beck: "He has trod the beaten path of Franklin, possibly the most useful citizen that America ever had. When Franklin, in the middle of his career, had made a financial competence, he gave the rest of his life to the public service, and when he, too, was 80 years of age, and was asked to attend the Constitutional Convention, he said...
...Storm-trod, nearer God, flung into the fright...