Word: swollenness
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...Manhattan, in the first fortnight after St. Swithin's Day, rain fell eleven days. New Jersey was soggy after the worst floods in four decades. At Little Falls, the Passaic River washed out a railroad bridge, leaving only the tracks swaying above the swollen current (see cut). New Orleans sloshed through its rainiest July ever (14 inches plus). When a man in Minneapolis ran out of ice cubes, his mother-in-law dashed into the backyard, picked up a handful of hailstones. It was no legend, but a fact, that the U.S. had had unusual weather since the hottest...
...when, for example, he hurled himself on his knees before Novelist Somerset Maugham in a crowded elevator, crying "Maitre!" But many of them loved and respected the man inside the Fabbulous Monster. They knew that Woollcott was boundlessly kind and generous without ever admitting it, that out of his swollen income he gave away huge sums-to friends, charities, young men trying to get a start in life. But sometimes the very combination of Christian and Monster seemed intolerable. "Your brother has a heart of gold," said Novelist James M. Cain to Will Woollcott, "and how I hate...
...papers, even appealed to the local conjuror (a frightening man who wore a full-bottomed black wig backwards, peering through its curls like a sheepdog). Then, on the evening of Jan. 29, Bet appeared at her mother's door, half-naked, numb with cold, her face swollen and bloated, her hair matted. The neighbors listened aghast to her pitiful tale. "I have been almost starved to death," she quavered. "I have had nothing but bread and water since New Year...
Many more Germans preferred to give up rather than die on the western front last week. The number of captured, greatly swollen by Volksstürmer, was rapidly nearing 1,000,000 since April 1. Yet some did choose death. In Leipzig, the U.S. First Army discovered a grotesque tableau of suicide in the City Hall (see FOREIGN NEWS ). And there was a young sniper captured in Leipzig who talked himself into self-slaughter...
...Main Chance. Looking eastward across the swollen but subsiding Roer, Bill Simpson last week faced the greatest chance of his career. In his sector, the Ninth was almost all the way through the concrete fortifications of the Westwall. But the Germans have backed up the older defenses with new labyrinths of trenches, mines, barbed wire, fortified villages and fortified houses. Simpson has already learned how the Germans can fight in such defenses...