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...know whether Mr. Coolidge is interested in these flood victims or not. . . . I don't recall reading where he has said a word about them since he went to Rapid City. . . . Mr. Hoover has done and is doing all he can but he is a lone eagle as far as the Government at Washington is concerned." And Mr. Seab (above mentioned), in almost the same words, said: "I know . . . that Mr. Hoover has and will continue to do everything he can . . . and the same is true of the Red Cross. But there it stops...
Brakes set with a long screech. Three men pointed black steel muzzles from their car at the lone pedestrian. Four bullets passed through Mr. O'Higgins' neck, one lodged in his chest, a sixth entered one ear and penetrated to the base of his brain. The motor car lurched, raced away...
...matter of fact, Commander Byrd and his crew were at that time lost in the fog and did not alight on the sea near Ver-sur-Mer until two hours later. In a tardy checking of the false report, an A. P. correspondent found a lone watchman at Issy Les Moulineaux, who had neither seen nor heard an airplane...
...thou lone prophet of the wilderness...
...every head but one rested a flat-topped, tasseled cap; all but one pair of legs marched swathed in the folds of the academic gown. The lone exception was Vice President Charles Gates Dawes, who, with silk hat, striped trousers, frock coat and pale blue, pearl-studded tie headed the parade.* He was to deliver the Commencement Address to the 1927 Class of Washington University...