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...barren room on the top floor of the Foreign Office, he is as far removed socially and physically from the lower as from the upper crust. . . . Outside of politics, the telephone and the cable, all up-to-dateness offends him. He abhors new clothes, does not like to ride in automobiles. . . . Does every little task for himself like sharpening his own pencils. . . . Here is Mr. Tchitcherin, member of one of the oldest and most aristocratic families in Russia, for four years now guiding with such delicate hands and careful brain the affairs of state, in order that all that once...
...talks of his work with high seriousness. I just managed to catch hold of his coattails and detain him for a few moments. This respite was doubtless between the writing of a syndicate poem and the sending out of a radio broadcast. He then took me for a ride in the Ford car which was presented to him by the great manufacturer himself. Riding with Eddie Guest in Detroit is almost like walking down Fifth Avenue with Douglas Fairbanks...
...messenger, splattered with mud and faint with fatigue, arrived in Moab today with the news that the Piutes had surrounded the town of Blanding. All communication with the outside world had been cut off, so this man had volunteered to ride through the lines and carry the bad news to Moab. Immediately the street began to fill with prairie-schooners, and stern-faced men whose eyes were full of the loneliness of the plains. Each man had a square gray beard, and an old musket under an arm which was wiry and tanned by years of sun and rain. Wagon...
Irvin S. Cobb: " I boarded a taxi in Manhattan, and was taken on such a wild ride that I finally had the chauffeur arrested for reckless driving. He got 15 days in the workhouse and I got a bad scare...
...believe this or not. But one thing is certain: the East has never lived so clearly before modern eyes. The book, once opened, cannot be closed. It has caught and held and given triumphant expression to that power that, even today, can compel the spirit of man to "ride in triumph through Persepolis...