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...rank correspondents know John Garner's drinking habits. He likes bonded rye, will occasionally go for good corn, scorns soda, ice and fancy fixings, pours water-tumblers half-full, says "Let's strike a blow for liberty" and chases with a little "branch-water" out of the faucet. He has never been seen drunk or even lightly groggy. After 6 p. m. for some 15 years he has either played a few hands of rummy with his wife-secretary, Ettie, or sat with her on the Washington Hotel roof, his belt loosened, his high-laced shoes cocked...
...winds blow the sand continually. Most of the refugees have developed conjunctivitis. Fuel in the large camps is scarce. Cooking is done exclusively in tin cans. At one camp men and women at first stood in line all day waiting to get a little water from a small faucet. At another the only water available-and it is brackish-is obtained from pumps driven into the sand. All the water is bad and it is estimated that 60% of the refugees-or 250,000-have dysentery...
Human nature is at its worst when it comes across a sign saying "paint" resting gingerly on the walls of some stairway. There surges within most individuals an irresistible impulse either to carry off the placard and relax it against the faucet of a washbowl, or else refuse to take the painter at his word and run a testing finger along the damp surface until the amount of paint collected on the digit impedes further progress. The result is probably worse than no sign at all, in which case bitter experience with new coats would soon deaden curiosity and remove...
Goodrich has invented a simple method of filling the tire with water from an ordinary garden hose. Water under normal faucet pressure suffices, is pumped in until the level reaches the valve. Then air inflation is added as usual. In winter, a calcium chloride solution prevents freezing. During operation over bumps, the water remains at the bottom of the tire, provides normal cushioning without bouncing...
Johnny fears nothing, does everything he is told. At home he shinnied up the brace of the kitchen sink and turned on the faucet to lap a drink. He jumped off the ice box into his father's arms. He crawled up on one of the gratings which guard every window of the Wood apartment and almost fell to the sidewalk. He poked his head through the cover of the radio loud speaker. At the small table where he eats with Jimmy he showed adequate table manners, dunked his bread in his soup, smiled easily at company...