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...Moultrie, Ga. a schoolgirl was killed when she stepped on a storm-whipped live wire. At Dinner Key the wind blew 123 miles per hour at the Pan-American Airways base. Houses crumpled, boats swamped, streets flooded. Part of the metal dome of the State Capitol at Tallahassee was torn...
...splinters. One house was blown 700 feet. Mrs. Dorothy Lucas and her 18-month-old baby, Diana, were ripped out of their frame house, blown 500 feet to death, their bodies stripped of clothing. Doorjamb of the Lucas house, still bearing the small metal numerals of the address, was torn from the rest of the wreckage, jammed upright in the ground near Mrs. Lucas, like a grave marker...
Brick buildings are rubble; wooden buildings are ashes. The Kremlin is a collection of shells. From ruins the Germans have torn window frames and doors for their dugouts. Every store has been looted. The inhabitants who remain have no food but potatoes, and these are often taken from them by soldiers. Anyone who appears in the streets by night is shot...
...conclusion of the singing of "Fair Harvard" an effigy of a Dartmouth man was torn from his moorings on a nearby tree, to be consumed in a thoroughly satisfactory blaze...
...mind." By this time the afternoon is over, Mrs. Woolf has conjured up a heroic image of the whole splendor of English literature and history, from the age when rhododendrons crowded Piccadilly to the moment when, puzzled, uneasy, a little offended, the audience beholds itself torn to pieces among the flashing mirrors of the village players in their finale, called England: Ourselves...