Word: hearses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The three-phase 60-cycle hum of the heaters in the furnace was to his ear "an exact representation of the noise one hears as a female mosquito visits one in the night, and one endeavors to crush the annoying creature by a slap of the hand on the side...
As yet it is too early to predict the effect of the Houses, or to know how far they will fulfill the hopes of those who sponsored them; for they are a new experiment, and some years must pass before they acquire permanent traits and traditions. But they have started...
Auction Riot Lexington, Ky. is the scene each year of the biggest tobacco auctions in the U. S. But last week tobacco-men watched the smaller towns of Owensboro and Henderson instead. At Owensboro some 3,000 farmers collected around the main warehouse or ''floor'' for...
Meanwhile things are going badly in the Hinkemann home. Egon constantly hears imaginary laughter ringing in his ears, pitiless, mocking laughter at his infirmity. His best friend seduces, impregnates his wife. She commits suicide. Egon finds himself a piece of rope and walks off the stage to become another victim...
But there was one amongst this happy group who, most regrettably, felt that he had work to do. He sat, part of each day, in a high studded gilt room staring at the ceiling through grey, opaque eyes; smoking long, thin Turkish cigarettes. Some men called him the Sphynx; he...