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Late one afternoon, Chesley W. Jurney, a Texan who, after a generation of service as secretary to Democratic Senators and Representatives, was made Sergeant at Arms of the Senate last year, dropped his other duties and sallied forth from the Senate accompanied by J. Mark Trice, Deputy Sergeant at Arms and official Storekeeper. Sergeant Jurney wore grey striped trousers, a cutaway, a black 10-gal. hat, a heavy overcoat with a red handkerchief hanging out of its pocket. He carried a document signed by Vice President Garner directing him to "take into custody the body of the said William...
...Hello, old pard," answered the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate...
...Lincoln rams, their fleece rendered in coarse-grained Burgandy stone. The great Middle White champion boar, Wharfedale Deliverance, beaten at last by his own daughters, showed his remote Chinese ancestry in pink marble, turned-up snout, stiff-flaring ears. There were conventional models of the famed racehorses Polymelus, Sergeant Murphy, Easter Hero, a polo pony, a Percheron mare and foal, a sleek black marble Aberdeen Angus bull, a cow, a ewe, a sow. Of each British champion Sculptor Haseltine had made exactly twelve small copies which sold for $450 to $1,700 each...
Hunter Donald Randolph Philip Savilla Stiano Braggiotti Betty Findon Daphne Wilson Colin Derwent Bramwell Fletcher Sir Miles Standing Oswald Yorke Inspector Pember Reynolds Denniston Sergeant Brace Leslie Barrie...
...investors, that President Roosevelt's personal representative in Havana, hard, able Mr. Jefferson Caffery, put through a little "garage diplomacy."* Mr. Caffery had not been idle. Shifting from President Grau, on whom he first used suasion, he conferred repeatedly last week with Cuba's bantam generalissimo, ex-Sergeant Fulgencio Batista who commands the entire army with the modest rank of Colonel. According to correspondents, "Caffery read the riot act to Batista." Out to the army post at Camp Columbia hurried Batista and most of Cuba's politicos, excepting Surgeon Grau who shut himself up in the Presidential...