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...phony war." Everyone was bored with it. Rumors, hysteria, gloom, mockery emanated from the general boredom like marsh gas from a swamp. In the streets of Paris, strange, melancholy figures appeared; many were dressed as widows, though France then had few casualties. Mourners were seen in uncommon numbers. Presently the French police realized that these widows' weeds, this ostentatious grief were deliberate weapons in the Nazi war of nerves. Finally, nervously, the police arrested some, found, sure enough, they were professional mourners, not going to any funeral. Said Edmond Taylor, in The Strategy of Terror: they had been hired...
Amid the encircling gloom, one little note of hope was heard. Maryland's Governor Herbert Romulus O'Conor announced that his State had closed its fiscal year with a fat treasury surplus of $925,000. He promptly cut Maryland's real and personal-property tax rate from 22? to 14? on each $100, saving property owners about $2,000,000 a year. Next year, said Governor O'Conor, if all goes well, he may ask the Legislature to reduce Maryland's income taxes...
...last visitors shuffled out into the brilliant sunshine of Manhattan's Battery Park. Inside the Aquarium, the big pool where the sea lions once arched their sleek backs was empty; in the green gloom of the cavernous, dank galleries, water gurgled away, the lights went dark. The world's biggest marine exhibit, its denizens shipped away, was being dismantled...
Citizens poking along in the gloom of the blackout were scared stiff when they smelled pungent jungle smells, saw wild eyes glinting in the darkness, felt sinuous, furry flanks sliding past their legs...
There were only two bright spots in the afternoon for the Crimson and they penetrated the gloom like neon signs in Harlem. Loren MacKinney's feat has already been mentioned--practically climbing up on the defending half back shoulders to snare a 31-yard Lee aerial and then on the following play snagging another 25-yard looper from Johnson to bring the Crimson to the Penn 14-yard stripe for their only serious threat...