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...more accidents happened, the crowd wandered about the grounds picking four-leaf clovers, swigging bottled beer, munching hamburger sandwiches. His lead never seriously threatened, Meyer coasted the last 25 mi. to save gas and play safe, crossed the line in 4 hr. 48 min. The spectators reassembled to cheer him, almost crushed him when they crowded around his car. Meyer kissed his wife, vowed he was going to quit racing and go back to California. Six minutes later, Wilbur Shaw of Indianapolis sputtered across the line for second place, and after him Lou Moore of Los Angeles...
...Birchall that he planned to fight to the finish against both "brown Bolshevism and red Bolshevism. ... A curious and impressive result of the Hitlerite propaganda here has been to awaken a distinctive Austrian national spirit. . . . Every time the word 'Austria' is mentioned it now evokes a cheer. . . . We would like Austria to exist as an object lesson to the world of German culture . . . that is not a menace but an inspiration...
...After the Revolution he dedicated himself to cultural work among the Russian masses, but the Russian climate was too much for his bad lung; he went back to Capri and still lives there. But when he visits Russia (as in 1928 for the opening of the Gorki Museum) crowds cheer him. Tall, gaunt, droopy-mustached, with wrinkled brow and a spreading peasant's nose, Gorki's bass voice rumbles kindly tolerance. He has put all his bitterness in his name...
...Disarmament Conference (TIME, Feb. 8, 1932 et seq.). Admittedly one of the world's greatest orators, Prime Minister MacDonald was never greater than last week. In his speech, which lasted an hour and 20 minutes, he ran the gamut from threats to wheedling, from sarcasm to good cheer-all with Scotch power and dignity...
With good cheer the Prime Minister slapped down before the Conference a specific British Plan of some 10,000 words, urged its broad acceptance, and concluded with the ringing words: "Our children will not think of the difficulties that beset us during the last year; they will only praise us for the successes that attended our efforts and the glory that belongs-that then belonged-to the Disarmament Conference and its members...