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Then, as they had been accustomed to doing after Allied bombings, they went down into the streets and swept the broken glass and fallen tiles into the gutter. Not more than a few dozen of the 108,000 residents of Ludwigshafen bothered to go down to the factory-they had long since ceased to be curious about scenes of destruction. Most of those who did go were mothers or wives of workers who had not called or come right home. These women waited patiently across the street from the plant, every now & then crossing over to see whether...
...General Conference of 1944 ($27,011,243 raised for world relief and reconstruction; a record one-year gain of 1,063,734 new members). He restated the traditional Methodist stand against "the liquor traffic" and its "advertisements that seek to associate whiskey with success rather than with the gutter." He deplored the growing tendency of Methodist-founded universities and other institutions to break away from their church affiliation. Then he came to the main point...
...Caveman Horace McCoy has driven to an absurd extreme the hardboiled, feel-my-muscles style of James Cain and Dashiell Hammett, and, to add cultural tone, has dipped into the bowely bathos of the wasn't-Bix-wonderful, oh-blow-that-beautiful-horn school. The result is a gutter-minded, gutter-tongued shocker of alley-cat sex, sadism and unmourned murders-relieved only by odes to Satchmo's and Muggsy's horn blowing...
...despising the picturesque and invoking purity, one could eulogize anything: an empty bottle floating in the gutter, litter swept by the wind. It's too easy...
...clotting crowd tore off his clothes, pounded him with shoeshine boxes snatched from ragged urchins, kicked his face and head into a bloody pulp. Then they knotted a tie around his neck and dragged him six blocks. All afternoon his body lay in the gutter before the Presidential Palace while the rain water made little whirlpools around his bare heels. Gaitán had been picked up and carried to the Clínica Central...