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...Years- What? At City Hall, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia (who wept during the parade) presented him with a gold medal, introduced him in squeaky superlatives. The General replied: "New York simply can't do this to a Kansas farmer boy and keep its reputation for sophistication." But again, as he talked, he quit smiling. Said he: "Can the parents of those children look ten years ahead and be satisfied with anything less than [their] best to keep them . . . from the horrors of the battlefield...
...calm." Turning to Rospigliosi, Koch added: "Come and see me this afternoon in jail. Have a good lunch. Sorry I can't lunch with you. I must stay with these gentlemen." (He pointed at the carabinieri.) Late that evening Koch saw his fiancee, Tamara, who broke down and wept...
...Angeles' county jail last week greying, motherly Mrs. Louise Peete Judson began preparing herself for death. When the matron and her fellow prisoners wept for her, she said: "Don't be troubled, my dears. Death is merely an eventuality in all our lives." They were not comforted : she was so nice, so poised, so kind. But throughout her life, death trailed her like the fragrance of the expensive perfume* she used...
...Adolf Hitler's 48-year-old sister, Frau Paula Hitler Wolff, was put under house arrest (i.e.., confined to her home) at Berchtesgaden. She wept...
...political climate during their absence. But seldom has a returning Government in Exile been so warmly welcomed. Hundreds of fjordside villagers went out in small boats to meet the liner which brought Nygaardsvold home. When the Premier and his Ministers walked down the gangplank, hundreds of stolid Norwegians wept...