Word: garrets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Holmes from his breakfast table, "if there are any such beings nowadays as the great Eliphalet, with his large features and his conversational basso profundo, seemed to me. His very name had something elephantine about it, and it seemed to me that the house shook from cellar to garret at his footfall...
...Justice was born elsewhere, coming only in his College days to visit his grandmother and uncle, of whom Emerson said something to the effect that 'John Holmes has humor, while Oliver has only wit.' Boston's poet laureate returned in 1871, literally at least, to poke around the garret and compare it to "a seashore, where wrecks are thrown up and slowly go to pieces...
...Thayer, a latter-day saint of the Law School, was living there. At some now well-hidden date before the turn of the century, Holmes house was torn down, not to make way for Littauer, which didn't inflate the landscape until much later, but presumably because, like its garret's contents, it was slowly going to pieces...
...made her tiny, seventh-floor hotel room in Montmartre a haven for the sad, overpainted tarts who climb the spiral stairs for a chat, a prayer or a good cry. Sometimes, too, they ask for help in finding a decent job, and help is always forthcoming. In a dilapidated garret in the suburb of Aubervilliers live Andree, Juliette and Colette-each 24, each working in a factory. Colette- and Juliette work in the nearby Tungsram plant, Andree in the Citroen factory 'in Asnieres. Despite her training years in factory work, Andree's hands are red and swollen from...
...baptizing their own children. Yet they need God so badly!" Andree has worked only a fortnight at Citroen, yet she is already getting to be known as a missionary worker. "Last week a fellow worker noticed my ring and asked about my family. I invited her to our garret, and when she arrived, I told her the whole story. We're close friends already. By the time my hands harden up the whole plant will know. Already other girls are beginning to come around and wish me luck...