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...levee 2,000 Bar Association members were added to 3.000 regular guests making it the largest in recent White House history. For an hour and 40 minutes the President, standing in the Blue Room, shook hand after hand after hand. Many an exuberant guest, ignorant of White House etiquet, wrung the President's fingers instead of allowing him to do the shaking. The President's hand turned red and began to swell. Jeweled rings cut into his palm and finger tips. The President noticed he was getting blood on ladies' white gloves. He felt fatigued. White House...
Darting forward as soon as the Imperial Chamberlain stepped sedately back, excited War Minister Lieut.-General Sadao Araki wrung Conqueror Honjo's hand, then clasped him in a "half-hug," exceedingly rare among decorous Japanese...
Cackles & Shakes. As if to pave his way into the sacred chamber, Mr. McAdoo dropped into the Senate lobby last July before adjournment. Democrats, aware that he had just nominated their presidential candidate at Chicago, nocked about him warmly, wrung his bony hand. Mississippi's Harrison and Georgia's Cohen sang his praises to the Press. Even California's Republican Johnson had a friendly greeting for him. The McAdoo grin permeated the lobby. "Hello . . . hello . . . hello . . . hello," he cackled to one & all. Suddenly his narrow eye fell upon Senator Shortridge, his probable opponent in November, sitting quietly...
Inquisitor Seabury, following up testimony he had previously wrung from the Mayor's associates, conducted his inquiry along four major channels...
Members of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee last week clustered about 74-year-old Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, wrung his hand, gave him congratulatory back pats. They had just approved his latest version of a bill to reform the national banking system on a tremendous scale...