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...cold; the thermometer stood at 19°. In the hushed buildings of Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, nurses worked at the desks, hurried soundlessly down hushed corridors on errands of the deep night. A nurse paused at a window, glanced out into the darkness, caught her breath in horror; thin patches of snow in the yard were lighted with the red glare of flames. She raced down the corridor to spread the alarm. As she did, the hospital's St. Elizabeth mental ward, a 60-year-old frame building, was spewing smoke and flame. Trapped in its rooms...
Speaking at a Boston Harvard Club forum, Mather said that the matter "cuts to the very fundamentals of American democracy." He termed such bus service "the thin edge of a wedge which, if driven further, will wreck the basic foundation of our republic...
...every word he rumbles, able Prosecutor Murphy displays his conviction of Hiss's guilt. He rises, puffing out his cheeks a little, eyes on his quarry. Hiss's head on his thin neck is cocked to one side. His only gestures are with his head, which he ducks, shakes, nods, rolls from side to side. His hands are kept folded in his lap; his eyes are fixed steadily on Murphy's face...
Absolute & Lesser Musts. The guide was founded by Karl Baedeker, a book-dealer's son from Essen, Germany, who in 1827 published a thin booklet on the best ways & means of traveling along the Rhine. For the rest of his life, Baedeker traveled about Europe, by bicycle, on horseback and by coach, notebook in hand, eyes peeled for grandeur to praise or bedbugs to warn against. In time, Karl and his sons, who took over the business, were assisted by legions of conscientious observers combining the qualities of master spies and bons 'vivants. By the eve of World...
...seems that the tribal ways of thinking that the man of 1900 had blithely ignored had a resurgence in the twenties and thirties; any illusions hovering protectedly by were finally burned in the crematoriums or died with the Kamikaze pilots. The vencer of civilization had not just worn thin; it had warped and peeled off altogether...