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Suddenly lights flashed on in the glass-paneled ceiling, with theatre footlight effect. Instead of a rising curtain, Speaker Longworth, with jaunty step, mounted the rostrum, struck his gavel twice upon the block and called above the din: "The House will be in order." Opposite him the hands of the big gilt clock exactly met at the top of the dial...
...toms beat ceaseless din as Edward of Wales & Party approached, last week, the stronghold of that quaint, Afrlc potentate, H. H. Daudi Chau, the Kabaka of Buganda, East Africa. Though subservient to Great Britain, the Kabaka exercises many a right and power over his own people. Aloof, he resides within a spacious palace, surrounded by a woven fence of elephant grass, two miles in circumference and 15 feet high...
...COMPLEXIONS! Vitreous vessels, onetime containers of whiskey, stout, champagne, were in idle profusion-all dedicated to the embarrassment of Aimee Semple McPherson, notorious evangelist who inadvertently had chosen university election time to speak to the studentry. Pitifully, persistently she tried to make herself heard above the heckling din. Only when she said, "Let us pray," did the studentry bow their heads in real or simulated reverence. When the prayer came to Amen the divine interlude ended: smoke was blown in the McPherson's face and to it was offered many a beer...
...leisure class of the newspaper fraternity. The rear rows of the press seats are filled with men from the morning papers, who have no story to send through the game, but can wait until long afterwards to wire a carefully considered account to their editors. Above the din of telegraph instruments and typewriters, these gentlemen sit at their ease, in attitudes suggesting expert opinion in repose...
...study enigmatic reptile nature, the Sahib kept a cobra under glass, until he found he was losing caste with the natives for imprisoning a god. And throughout his Indian sojourn he learned to understand that reverence for the almighty cobra. One night he was wakened by an unearthly din; his terrified dog crept under the mosquito netting with him. In a pool of moonlight a family of cats fought with a host of rats: danse macabre to the rhythm of warlike squeaks and terrific meows: Then sudden silence. A glistening cobra had glided out of the gloom. Glassy-eyed, cats...