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There are only two settings in Lower than Angels. One is Brooklyn, where Marvin lived until he was ten, in a railroad flat in Grandma Lang's home. It was full of beaded curtains, canaries, chairs with claw feet and red leather seats, gaslights, knickknacks, onyx clocks and vases filled with cattails. From an upstairs window Marvin could look down upon flower gardens and a spider's web of clotheslines forever hung with grey underwear. His father, who then had charge of the hardware section of Bohan's department store, was a Republican with firm convictions about...
...Monticello, Ind., William Carpenter, 30 years a railroad worker, got caught in the claw of a power crane, was crushed to death...
Halifax fishermen were in luck the moment the tow line snapped. Driven by the wind, the disabled U.S. Liberty ship drifted helplessly away from the tug which was towing her into port. She slid past the islands which ring Halifax's outer harbor, grounded firmly on Lobster Claw Ledge. Rocks under the sea smashed her hull. She lay broken near the land, her mid decks awash...
...beginnings of the next phase were already in evidence. The Americans of Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army were striking north along the Rhine from Strasbourg, to form the southern claw of another pincers. It would not be complete until Lieut. General George S. Patton's advancing right wing broke into the Saar...
Most Chileans believed that Alessandri hoped to be more than Senator. He would certainly claw and maul President Juan Antonio Rios' regime. For he had been elected in the face of all the opposition the Government could muster...