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...this creature's eyes been open he would have seen airplanes circling in the heavens, gay flags and bunting flying from the Stadium flagpoles. He would have heard a vast roar of many voices in the grandstands. But his eyes were tight shut. His ears heard nothing. He was not conscious. The basking man was Jack Bloomfield, onetime light heavyweight boxing champion of Europe, knocked horizontal by the hammering face, rib and head blows of Tom Gibbons, of St. Paul, Minn., in the third round of what had been scheduled as a 20-round fight. The winner surveyed...
...boomed its dull, monotonous roar, the crowd became bareheaded, two minutes' silence was observed with reverential solemnity. Then, thousands of melancholy voices sang the old German hymn: Wir treten zum Beten. As the vibrant notes of the hymn found thundering echoes of grief in thousands of hearts, tears welled, men and women allegedly fainted?not from heat, for it was cold?not from crowd roughness, for there was order?but from grief...
...Britain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, growls of protest swelled to a swirling roar of indignation. Even in the U. S. voices were not silent. A Unamuno letter was recently sent to the press, accompanied by a hot letter from Judge Peter J. Hamilton of Porto Rico. Don Unamuno's letter, in part: "I have been exiled here, having-been given twenty-four hours to abandon my house, without judicial writ, not even of a military judge ; without any proceeding and without telling...
...lips form revolutionary metaphors and epigrams and hurl them upon his audience until it becomes intoxicated with his magic; his voice, aided by gestures from "a windmill of arms and legs," is like that of a tragédien, rising from the soft strains of pathos to the roar of dramatic agony. Some have called him "the thunderer of the Revolution," others, "a demagogue, pure and simple...
Centre of attraction was a three-storied, wooden pyramid "40 feet high." Here soldiers stood in lines to form pathways to the pyramid. A shout was heard; then gathering force, like a mighty wind lashing itself into a tornado, the shout increased to a dull reverberant roar; along the pathways came the leader of Russia. Then deal silence. Suddenly a score or more of bands struck up the Internationale and down one of the aisles came some French Communists from the Department of the Seine to present to Peasant Kalinin, Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committe...