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...disappointments, dreams, hopes, despairs and resignations which had piled up during the year. Now loathing possessed him, loathing for the place, for the climate, for his work which he saw as a mere drop in this bottomless bucket of poverty, superstition and disease. . . . He watched rain drench the road and knew that everywhere humble people were praising the Lord as they paddled through the downpour. . . . But he was incapable of sharing in the jubilation of. these god-infested folk-their joys and their griefs were on too vast a scale for his participation...
Fireman Thompson could not seem to learn. Late that night he was discovered astride a 30-foot wall in the neighborhood, hauling up a fire hose to drench another fire. Last week he was recuperating, expected soon to take a new job of fire-watching, at which he will try very hard to remember not to throw water on incendiaries...
...together." He badgered Escape's Director Mervyn Le Roy endlessly about studio technique, until Le Roy finally told him to watch through a camera finder and he would demonstrate a storm scene. As soon as Oboler had his eye glued to the finder, Le Roy cued technicians to drench him with cinema rain...
...direction of a young SEC lawyer named Peter H. ("Handyman") Nehemkis Jr., surveys will be made in 561 towns and cities. SEC itself will concentrate on ten "representative" cities.* Already well under way, the job is to be finished by June 1. Said Jerome Frank: "We want to drench ourselves in facts." A sample question small businessmen will be asked: What per cent of your inventories have you borrowed against...
Butter barrages aimed at student waiters were until recently quite popular in the Yale Commons; oneing a butter-tosser with six glasses heckled waiter retaliated by drench of milk...