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Heavy-footed, unbashful Captain Wermuth splashed great spurts from the puddies as he strode, and the front files grinned at his equipment: a tommy gun slung across his back, two revolvers (he does not trust automatics) snugged by their horsehide lanyards to his long legs, grenades bulging his pockets and haversack. The little Scouts knew this was no showcase equipment. Bataan's One-Man Army, who brags a heap but always makes good, is officially credited by his regimental commander with killing at least 80 Japs singlehanded. Flamboyant Captain Wermuth, who often works alone, claims...
...Fish strode in with majestic dignity. But his memory was in bad shape. He could not be sure whether he had introduced Viereck to his secretary, George Hill. All such details had faded into a fog. Prosecutor William Power Maloney asked suavely whether it was a coincidence that Viereck's views as a Nazi propagandist "coincide so closely with your views as a Congressman at this time." Mr. Fish could still shout. He leaned forward, shouted: "The man who made that statement lies." Maloney asked him whether he referred to Viereck. Fish replied: "I am referring...
...last day of last year an agent of Manhattan underwriters Blyth & Co. strode into Chicago's First National Bank, nipped a check for $4,555,909 at the wide-eyed receiving teller. Thus did Milwaukee's widowed, 75-year-old Ella M. Kearney and her two daughters get hard cash for their 50% stock interest in Kearney & Trecker Corp., maker of 30-35% of all U.S. milling machines...
...Wardman Park Hotel. Next day Lewis walked through a side door of the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, strode up one flight to 200-B, the suite where Messrs. Fairless, Purnell and Grace awaited him and his aides...
Macbetto was Baritone Jess Walters, a 32-year-old Brooklynite of modest stature but big voice. Philadelphian Florence Kirk, 27, as his indomitable Lady, prowled and strode upstage & down, drove her soprano hard, managed by sheer intensity to make Via, ti dico, o maledetta! sound as if it really were Out, damned spot...