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...Belgium, another great area-homeland to some 3,000,000-was swept by floods. In Ostend, one of the cities worst hit, the wind tore a baby from the arms of a woman struggling to escape and tossed the child into swirling water in the street to drown. In Antwerp, 120 yds. of docks crumpled into the Scheldt estuary...
...Blanket. All day long and long into the night the rescuers fought the waves. White-crested combers tore a gaping hole in the ship's iron side and a yawning fissure opened midships (see NEWS IN PICTURES). Crew and passengers huddled, six to a blanket, on the sharply listing foredeck where Pere Lechat, the priest in charge of the French pilgrims, gave absolution to everyone aboard...
...fresh water to lighten ship. Then he turned over his engines again in a futile hope of pulling clear. Within half an hour, the 3,800-tonner began to buckle amidships; minutes later, when all 39 crewmen had made their way to the stern, the Grommet Reefer tore in half as if broken over a giant's knee. From her holds spewed turkeys, fish, meat, beer and other supplies bound for the Christmas meals of U.S. troops in Austria...
Within 30 seconds Dominguin tore the first ole! from the packed stands. He maneuvered the bull over to the cheaper seats on the sunny side of the ring where the skeptical and hard-to-please bleacherites sit, and gave them a spectacular series of passes with his left hand, turning the bull in a tight circle and breaking off with a snap that left the animal dazed and dominated. In a roar of oles he turned his back on the bull and walked slowly away, his face a picture of arrogance...
Then followed the awful sentence in which the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Minnesota tore apart the veil of infallibility that generations of adulation had woven. "Appellant was a single man (thus disposing of occasional commercial rumors of a "Mrs. Claus"), 51 years old (presumably an arbitrary figure), and...in order to bring him up to the average man, intellectually, he must be measured by a yardstick of considerable elasticity." Claus v. Hall Mercantile Co., 157 Minn. 290, 196 N.W. 261. We can sympathize with the hurt Claus, clutching frantically at his flaming whiskers, but the judicial finding...