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...alleged that M. Daeschner bowed, pressed a packet of papers into the President's hands and burst forth into felicitous words, as follows...
...opponents of the Child Labor Amendment proposed as a part of the Constitution last week burst into rejoicing. The news was out that 13 states had refused to ratify. Since three-quarters of the states must ratify (that is, 36) if the amendment is to be adopted, the opponents cheered that the amendment was defeated. The proponents took a different stand. Miss Julia Lathrop, Vice President of the National League of Women Voters, typified their stand when she exclaimed: "We have not lost the fight. . . . A State once ratifying ratifies for all time, but a State refusing to ratify...
Suddenly everybody in that notable company stood up, silent, then burst into applause. Before them bowed Paderewski, come back to Rome for the first time in 28 years. Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt he played; after every number, a storm of clapping. At the concert's end, the Queen Mother herself stood up, smiled graciously at the pianist...
...woman shrieked, seeing the portholes burst. The vessel groaned, feeling downward for her grave on the cold seafloor. The Black Sea flung its folding mountains on and on toward land and the winter gale hissed a dirge for the works...
...brilliant burst...