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...through the Chancellor's speech there were constant interruptions, slamming of desk-lids, rude calls. At one point, the Chancellor was forced to halt by the indescribable racket of Government supporters and Opposition as they vainly and vocally tried to shout one another down. Herr Luther looked pleadingly toward the President's Chair, but Herr Doktor Loebe was not there; he had left the Chamber for a snack of Frankfurters and beer. The Acting President, Herr Riesser, much preoccupied, suddenly became aware that the Chancellor was not speaking, looked up, caught Herr Luther's eye, jumped...
...behind stoves and rush to the curb with their coin; that made big investors say to their brokers, "Buy!" between every puff of their long black cigars. Those who outlined these reasons pointed most of all to the first one. Drum-major in the band from whom the swaggering racket swelled, they said, was a skinny man from Vermont, and the big bass drum he so dourly thumped was called Prosperity...
Turning from tennis to golf in 1914, Miss Browne picked up her racket again in 1917 and toured the country for the Ambulance Fund. She reappeared in 1921 in the national finals against Molla Mallory, vanished again until two weeks ago at Seabright. In that tournament she flashed through a winner in the singles, doubles, mixed doubles; showed her early brilliance undiminished...
...might get mad and chuck my racket...
...Save the women and children" and "Hey! Cut out the racket,--I want to study" were but two of the phrases which greeted the Cambridge Fire Department when it arrived to extinguish a small fire in the southwest corner of the roof of the D. K. E. house on Mount Auburn Street last night at 11.30 o'clock...