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...poor quality. In Sheffield 20,000 steelworkers had an enforced six-day Christmas holiday while firms scraped together enough coal to carry on. Day after the holidays, absenteeism reached 80% in one mine. But 95% of the men showed up that night to collect their pay. The hum of industry was turning everywhere into a mournful wail: "We have only three days' stock of coal in hand...
...hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys & girls raising their innocent hands...
...Rossia eased away from the quay into the gathering murk, lights blazed in a tiny Russian church, erected in the backyard of Marseilles' only Russian restaurant. A reverent hum came from the windows. Said the owner of the restaurant, a former ballet dancer in the Russian Imperial Theater: "We are also praying for those who are leaving...
...Stadium gale . . . . the Yale tooters looked blue all the way through in the flimsy outfits as the wind whipped through the loose-fitting uniforms . . . the Harvard Band started out with the temporary advantage of a lull in the storm, but the Crimson stands burst into a consternated hum when their drum major, failed in two attempts to catch his baton after throwing it over the goal posts...
...which he unpacks, and loses himself in a wistful fantasy of romantic love. The Moon Watch is about a simple Moroccan Negro, who, when transplanted to Vienna as a valet by a well-meaning professor of Arabic, naturally assumes that his master is the magic that makes the city hum. Sixteen Thousand Francs is about a German who steals money off a dead French officer in World War I. Fifteen years later, hunted by Hitler and still haunted by his crime, he flees to France to refund the money-only to find that the sole heir is a hard-boiled...