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...distance the crowd saw the two of them locked together at close quarters, their jockeys' boots rubbing. As they reached the finish still jammed together at the rail, in the immense uproar of a crowd that wanted the Bradley horse to win, Broker's Tip got the soft part of his nose out in front...
...serious hush fell over a full Senate chamber as Senator Glass rose to his feet and, against doctor's orders, delivered the only notable speech of the inflation debate. His physical strength was at low ebb. Tears stood in his soft brown eyes. But his words, bitten off out of the corner of his mouth, were edged with their old-time vehemence. . . . After 20 minutes he slumped back into his chair, weak and exhausted. About him crowded inflationists and anti-inflationists, to wring his small hand, praise his courage...
...There is no connection between the American action in restoring the embargo on the export of gold and the increase in our exchange [fund] which was decided upon long before we had any conception that the United States Government might abandon the gold standard. . . ." These were soft words for foreign consumption. Hardly was the speech finished before Lombard Street tipsters were insisting that the present ?150,000,000 fund would be raised to ?200,000,000 possibly to ?500,00,000 in preparation for a duel with the dollar. Wrote Economist John Maynard Keynes: "It demonstrates that we intend...
...tall Easter lilies were sentineled by blazing candelabra, seven-branched. . . . "Very pretty with lovely light brown hair and gray-blue eyes, the bride's youthfulness suddenly seemed to take on a certain queenliness as she swept from end to end of this lane of light. Her gown of soft white crinkly crepe was the essence of simplicity and therefore the perfection of chic. . . . "Held closely to her well-poised head, her fair hair visible through its delicate mesh, this airy, unsubstantial fabric [the veil] drifted in long, broad folds for yards behind her, as fragile as a mist, enmeshing...
...ways, his free & easy speech, the boys listened to him as they would to a football coach. For him they learned to sing in Latin, French and German, just as the music was written originally. They learned that good choral singing does not have to be exaggeratedly loud or soft, high or low. In 1919, to the distress of many an alumnus, they announced they were through with rah-rah songs. Financed by Banker Otto Hermann Kahn and Harvard alumni they took a European tour. Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky was so impressed that he invited them, with the Radcliffe Choral Society...