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Senator Hiram W. Johnson, on from California, strode into the Senate office building; prowled proudly around the gymnasium; inspected horizontal bars, electric horses, punching bags, medicine balls; decided that all was in order for the reorganization of his Senatorial gym class...
...House of Representatives" against George Washington English, U. S. Judge for the Eastern District of Illinois. Suddenly, under the clock, swinging doors swung; the doorkeeper announced the Managers (appointed by the House of Representatives to conduct the prosecution at the bar of the Senate). Four of the eight strode in, headed by Representative Michener of Michigan. He said, as everyone knew he would, that Judge English had handed in his resignation a week before, that President Coolidge had accepted it, that the primary purpose of the impeachment proceedings had been accomplished. Then Senator Charles Curtis moved that the Senate adjourn...
Wedding. On the wedding afternoon resplendent Swedish nobles strode up the staircase of the Royal Palace accompanied by their wives who wore the frumpy white "court dresses" prescribed by Swedish etiquet. Only the ladies of the royal party 'itself were attired as fashion dictates. While the wedding procession formed in an antechamber, King Gustaf of Sweden brought a decorous smile to courtiers' lips peeping out into the Throne Room through the Gobelin portieres. When His Majesty was thus satisfied that all was in readiness, there strode majestically to lead the wedding procession the 80-year-old Court Marshal...
Swart, bullnecked, purposeful, Premier Mussolini followed his orchids, strode on board, shook the hand of Sir Austen warmly, kissed the hand of Dame Chamberlain. A steward bustled forward. Cocktails of Italian vermuth in each of which reposed an olive were lifted high...
Broadway. Into a poorer-than-average season strode the first unqualified success, Broadway, by Phillip Dunning, newcomer, and George Abbott, experienced collaborator, stage technician. Flimsy characterization amputates the play just short of greatness...