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...Royal Party will arrive at the north entrance to Fort Myer military reservation. A troop of cavalry will be waiting for the Royal Party to act as an escort on the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery...
...station master did no such thing. In his canny French mind's eye he saw that if he opened the car, and even if he found the sword, afterwards a whole troop of excitable Poles might hold him responsible for whatever else might happen to be missing. With elaborate politeness he cabled to Madeira his refusal...
Chaplin films there are touches of smut: Chaplin as a busy street cleaner seeing an endless troop of mules, hurrying in the opposite direction, only to meet an elephant; Chaplin acting girlish toward a prize fighter stripping for battle...
...city editor of a sensational paper whips up his rewrite men like a dance director badgering a troop of chorus girls. "Write this story over again," he growls. "And put some menace into it. Give it some bated breath! Get excited! How can you expect the readers to get excited if you don't get excited yourself?" Last week Walter Lippmann, able, scholarly editor of the New York World, predicted an early disappearance of bated-breath or "yellow" journalism for the reason that the collective public palate cannot long remain unjaded. "When everything is dramatic, nothing after a while...
True, the last company comes up on the line and dresses smartly, the adjutant bawls out "Parade Rest," the band sounds off," marches forward to troop the line, and the 1200 stand stiff and motionless. That's all the spectator sees at parade...