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...ramp to what had once been the basement blacksmith shop of the stables of his father's large drygoods store. Before 1901, when the firm sold out, E. A. Ridley & Sons had done $6,000,000 worth of business a year. Down another flight of stairs to a dank subcellar aged Mr. Ridley would go. The air smelled like cool glue. Here, where once had been a well whence Mr. Ridley provided his tenements with cheap water of questionable purity, the strange, 88-year-old man had partitioned off a cheerless office. There were two iron safes, a high...
...pretty sight are those dying or dead from cholera. The disease, like typhoid, attacks the bowels, causes stupendous loss of body fluids. The whole body becomes covered with dank moisture. Cheeks become hollow, noses pinched, eyes sunk, voices husky. Death's rigor sets in quickly. Muscles become literally hard as wood. Sometimes a stiffening corpse jerks about, may kick out a foot, wave an arm. flap its jaws, roll its eyes...
...statement he hammered away at his well-known formula for Relief: 1) expansion of R. F. C.'s credit to $3,000.000,000 to help States finance self-amortizing public works and to aid the Farm Board with its export commodity loans; 2) a home loan discount Dank system "to stimulate from $500,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 of construction work"; 3) joint committees of industry and finance in every Federal Reserve district similar to the Young Committee in New York "for the organized application of the credit facilities now available" (see p. 43) ; 4) Government expenditures...
...vulture eye--"a place blue eye, with a film over it"...blood--"bleeding at the pores with dissolution"...the ghastly laughter of a drunken man walled in alive in a dank corner of the catacombs...the hot metal walls of a chamber converging to force a victim into a measureless pit--these objects of horror entered the world when a pale-browed, black-haired dreamer took another half-bottle a hundred years ago. He was a precocious lad. Scarcely out of diapers, he stood on a table declaiming verse, inspired by a glass of liquor. Later trips to the bottle...
They rammed their ice-borer, which was to give them escape if they were gripped under ice, against an ice chunk, smashed it. Ice crushed the runners atop the Nautilus, which were to enable her to slide against the underside of ice fields. She sprang two leaks, became miserably dank within. The propeller edges became saw-toothed and bent, grinding against small ice. But at last the Nautilus emerged from the ice-mashed Arctic and Sir Hubert radioed the world that he was all right...