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Evangelist Jeffers and 500 of his supporters followed to the courthouse. There they began singing hymns. Mayor Herbert J. Bosler ordered them to stop. ''Then let us pray for a minute!" cried Evangelist Jeffers. He knelt on the courthouse steps, prayed for four minutes. Time was up, said the Mayor. "May God strike the Mayor dead!" shouted the Evangelist, as his followers rained blows on Mayor Bosler and Chief of Police W. C. Craig. Deputies broke up the meeting...
...audience room they all knelt, with the exception of crippled Philip Snowden who was excused, "kissed hands'" and received the small leather cases containing their seals of office from George V. There was no actual osculation. In spite of the fact that all of these gentlemen had been through this ceremony before, they were warned by a whispering usher in knee breeches merely to bow over the royal fingers...
...passerby that night last week had seen a strange apparition on the side of a building. Devoutly he fell to his knees. Another, thinking he had fainted, ran to his side, knelt also as he saw the flickering blob of grey light. It was the Holy Virgin and Child! Crowds gathered in front of the building, swarmed into the yard of a Dr. J. J. Stoll, trampled his flowerbed and broke down his fence. They climbed on the roof of his garage; it caved in but they did not care, so exciting was the miracle...
From Evanston, Ill., husky Wade ("Red") Woodworth had motored all the last two nights to get to Albany in time, towing his racing boat on a trailer. He had spent another night fitting out his boat-had only two hours sleep between Tuesday and Friday. Now he partly knelt, partly sat on the cushions in his bucking little ship, his red hair standing up in a crest, watching the curves of the narrow upper river between its marshy banks. Fourteenth at the start, he soon was racing for the lead with Ben Rhymer who lives beside the Hudson at Kingston...
Fifty harps twanged Mendelssohn's "Wedding March." Imposing, the Cathedral of Palermo had been hung with rich tapestries, decked with carloads of flowers and on view was the Cathedral treasure: a sacred stole blazing with Byzantine gems which once studded the mantle of the Empress Constantia. But as he knelt at the altar beside Princess Isabelle last week the Count of Paris was garbed in a mere cutaway, his richest ornament a gardenia...