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Outside Congress: With his wife he lives in an old house on East Capitol Street. He entertains little, shuns society, keeps no car. Once he was taken up and lionized by Washington hostesses as a strange political specimen but when they found he did not roar loud enough for a third-party man they cooled toward him. One of his closest personal friends is Editor Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson of the Washington Herald. Indulging in none of the usual amusements of Senators he leads a solitary intellectual life befitting his unique political status...
...Naval Observatory signaled "Go." Lieut. Brown pulled his switch. A strip of rocky earth a mile long by 200 ft. wide heaved up slowly, settled with roar and dust. At the distant earthquake observatories, the seismographs registered faint squiggles. Thus man knew that he had shaken the earth, made it quiver, trifling though that quiver...
...Reign of Terror a sallow faced little man stood up in a spate of gunfire and shouted an order. A dirty Paris mob had started a street fight, and in the interests of peace it must be stopped. There was the rumble of caissons over the cobbles, the dull roar of cannon, the outcries of a dispersing crowd, and Napoleon had ordered his first artillery into action. From that time on his name was writ large on the map of Europe. The Alps, Italy, Egypt, Marengo, and the little figure came out of the mists of Revolution into the garish...
...profile of Blue Bird's is-ft. bonnet, he gathered speed going south along the beach. Nearing the grandstand at the start of the mile, the sound of Bine Bird's motor was first a low undertone to the warm purr of the surf, then a thundering roar, then a mighty shout of speed and wind as the car blurred past...
Above the roar of City Hall Park, Manhattan, in the big, musty room of the Federal District Court, famed Judge Julian William Mack rapped for order. There was a polite pandemonium caused not by expectant gum-chewers but by 50 lawyers who were trying to find seats on the Defense side of the case. United States v. Sugar Institute, Inc. They filled the jury box (for there was no jury). They flowed over into the spectator rows, squatted on rickety benches. The only one who was sure of a seat was John C. Higgiris of Sullivan & Cromwell...