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Again the clock was set back ? this time five minutes. The Sergeant at Arms announced: "The Chairman and members of the Joint Committee on Arrangements escorting the Vice President-elect." In company with Senator Curtis, General Dawes strode up the aisle to the rostrum. Senator Cummins motioned him to his side. Mr. Dawes sat down unceremoniously and promptly rose when he saw that no one else sat down. The audience laughed out loud...
...done and, contrary to precedent, all the remaining 24 were sworn in together. Then, with a sweeping gesture, Mr. Dawes ordered the Sergeant-at-Arms to carry out the order of the Senate for the inauguration of the President on the east front of the Capitol. The jammed galleries-all except the executive gallery-were instantly in a hurly burly as everyone rushed for the door. The floor of the Chamber emptied with almost as much confusion...
...Sergeant-at-Arms will carry out the order of the Senate for the inauguration of the President of the United States on the east front of the Capitol...
...love, ruling out the flesh and the devil. His hero is a young man who is both those Siamese twins of psychology, Dr. Coue and Dr. Frank Crane. The idealist returns from a year in Paris to his village and, finding his fiancee the wretched wife of a doltish sergeant, fulfills his philosophy by helping them to untangle the kinks in their jarring nervous systems...
...cast play it in a shuffling fashion. Edgar Stehli as the idealist, Walter Abel as the sergeant and Helen Freeman as the wife were like mushrooms nodding underground. The slight piece would make a shimmering curtain-raiser, if the cast were whipped up into playing it more smartly...