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Drinking water was so nauseous the mayor's office had to be provided with bottled water; thousands of citizens went daily to Fairmount Park springs to collect their drinking supply. Last week a bluish-black liquid stinking of chlorine, puckery with alum, gushed from many a tap. "There must have been a severe storm in the coal regions," the water bureau explained...
...again went out into the blackness. After a few minutes the shadowy form of a Moroccan slipped up to the captain and made a rapid report in Arabic." His patrol had grenaded a German patrol. About midnight a rocket shell cast a bluish-white light on the German ridge. " 'Ah,' said the French officer, 'you see, the Boches are mad. One of their patrols did not return on schedule, so they are showing the way home. It is probably the group with the wounded...
Death Eye. During operations, anesthetists watch closely the color of their patient's skin. If his normal rosy tinge changes to bluish, they quickly pump oxygen into his lungs. But it takes several minutes for the skin to show its telltale sign, and even the keenest observers cannot scent death by this crude method until a short time before the end. Last week Dr. Roy Donaldson McClure of Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital described a machine that notes the shadow of death long before death's hue is seen...
House members were fairly polite to the Secretary. Crusty old Democrat Carter Glass produced a bluish bundle wrapped in rubber bands. "That bundle," he warned, "is German marks which once were worth $46,000 and they are not worth wiping your nose...
...interwoven in the "Church at Jacona" give a weird effect, especially as the solid form of the structure is almost lost in a hazy smothering of paint. Again in "Jacona Houses" the mood is melancholy, sombre, and weird, intensified by dark tones of paint, except for a splash of bluish white breaking out of the gloom on the right side of the picture...