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...east end of the hall are three abrupt steps up. Beside them, in the hall's southeastern corner, once sat "Bill" Price of the Washington Star, first of all Washington newsgatherers to make a serious enterprise, under McKinley, of "covering" the President. All newsmen have long since been banished from the inner White House. Until Roosevelt's time, the President's executive offices were up the three steps, filling all second-story space over the East Room. The East Room's extra height elevates the second floor here, thus lowering the sills of the upstairs windows...
This part of Clifford Longley's life, however, came to an abrupt end. In 1909, when he was 21, Engineer Longley determined to become Lawyer Longley. He entered the University of Michigan. One year, in the middle of his law course, he set aside to attend to his finances and went to Torento to earn some money. But by 1913, he had achieved his second diploma, this time in .law, and he was ready to begin life in earnest...
...Stekene, Belgium, Conductor Van Hove de Saint-Pol put his orchestra through the paces of a brisk number, brought it to an abrupt end and ordered a funeral march. Whispering complaints, his players fumbled for their scores. But Saint-Pol hissed them quiet, tapped for attention, led the march through and dropped dead...
...Prince of Wales, invited her to perform at Windsor Castle two years ago. Last spring, Miss Draper was presented at the Court of St. James's, an honor no British actress has ever received, and an episode which added one more brief, unpredictable mis-en-scene to the abrupt series in which Ruth Draper's life, and all other lives, is told...
Such figures are a splendid justification of the confidence of the founders of the fund. The break with a familiar mode of life and abrupt transplantation into one with different customs and language is a handicap not overcome without both ability and earnestness. Both of these the emigrants have shown themselves to have in no small amount, and the country of their adoption is the gainer for the addition of such a group of productive workers to her ranks. As is the case with most persecutions, Soviet Russia has secured outward some degree of conformity to its tenets only...