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Debo who had left his South Pearl Street home that morning without shaving. On a damp ladder rung, his foot slipped. Down the manhole vanished his dark curly head. There was a muffled splash...
...another son, an infant, who likewise lacks sweat glands. He is too young to go ducking himself. So she dowses him from time to time with scuppers of water. Neither child can sleep unless his night clothes and mattress are wet. They take daytime naps in their damp cellar, with moist sacks for pillows...
Abroad the reaction was less favorable. In England, .Lombard Streeters referred to the plan as "a damp squib." Sir Walter Layton, Bank of England's representative on the Wiggin Committee, said it was "controlled inflation." In Paris the criticism was sharper, the eventual reaction on the Bourse violent. The third bank failure in Paris in ten days was announced, that of Banque Syndicale...
...Philadelphia, summer was gone. A cold wind blew from the river and the streets were damp and cold. Frank Collins, 65, homeless & jobless, buried his fists in his armpits, dug his chin into his collar, walked until he stood before the open door of a garage. Inside it was not cold. He lay down on a running board, went to sleep. A few minutes later the car drove out, drove until Frank Collins tumbled from the running board into the street, where he lay still. A doctor said he had died in his sleep...
...their damp stone offices in Whitehall, last week, the Sea Lords of the British Admiralty pondered how to prevent another gassing of the fleet, another explosion of Jack Tar's touchy sense of fair play. Hardboiled, their Lordships reduced the greatest mutiny in 134 years to terms of money. They announced that Jack Tar will not have to take the 25% wage cut he mutinously refused; but he must take, added the Lords of Admiralty...