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...Farrell, Charleston has a miracle-worker of commerce as well as a commercial miracle. In his thin, ascetic features, in his calm eyes, about which tiny wrinkles have come, in his masterful grey mustache and his silky grey hair, in these they will not see the boy of 16 who on the death of his seafaring father went into a New Haven, Conn., wire mill as a common laborer. But he was alert, had already begun consciously to train his now superb memory, studied night and day, and in 14 months was rated a mechanic; by 21 he was foreman...
...after the state primary had given Johnson a plurality, McCamant read a sheaf of letters and several affidavits to show that he had opposed Johnson openly before his own choice as a delegate. The small, thin Judge, with dark hair and snapping blue eyes, appeared to be rather keyed up for the occasion. He read from one letter, written in 1920, saying that Senator Johnson was not a good American...
From the perfect condition of the block and the intact slate of the microscopically thin sheets of plaster of paris between them it is certain that the tomb was never broken into. Any other entrance into such a well-like structure is out of the question. For weeks the work went on of the question. For weeks the work went on of the clearing of the ponderous limestone blocks. The shaft grew deeper and deeper. All records for depth were broken. Temporary quarters for the workers were built the hole and barbed wire was put up to keep off prying...
...Agnus Dei, with its supplication to the Lamb of God, "who takest away the sins of the world," to give him peace, the dying one inclined his head as a token of peaceful leave of those around him. He tried to pronounce the benediction, but was too weak. His thin, transparent hand moved through the sign of the cross with effort. He was certain of death; had been refusing all medicines. Towards the last, attendants thought they heard him whisper " . . .rien qu'attendre . . ." About two o'clock in the afternoon he went into a deep coma. The oxygen...
...three o'clock, as twilight set tled over quiet Brussels, his hollow-cheeked, highbrowed, thin-haired head fell forward on his chest. He was dead...