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...against their ears. Two women jumped up and left the room, running. Pandemonium continued. Ears ached, foreheads throbbed. There was no denying that all the noises in the U. S. had been reproduced except the explosion of Black Tom. That might come at any moment. But no-after an inferno that only a very serious person could have invented came silence. The Manhattanites gasped, a few clapped, many cat-called and hooted. Arguments raged for blocks around as the noise-beaten crowd dispersed through the whispering city. Critics. In Europe, Composer Antheil was most thoughtfully pondered. The critics...
...Arbor, Mich., on Jan. 27, Henry R. Kasson, 22, junior in the University of Michigan, who had lately suffered concussion of the brain in a motor smash, wrote out a check and a letter (explaining nothing) for his roommate, opened his copy of Dante's Inferno, drank acid and died...
...part of half an hour. My spoon weighs 25 pounds, my porridge is pasty iron and the heat of my kitchen is so great that if my body was not hardened to it the ordeal would drop me in my tracks. ... I am like some frantic baker in the inferno kneading a batch of iron bread for the devil's breakfast...
Suddenly a thudding, thudding, tearing explosion, welled from below decks. Detonating en masse the munitions cargo set the ship afire and blew it simultaneously to splinters. Within five minutes 1,200 of the 1,500 mercenaries perished in the deadly inferno. Three hundred, lucky, swam ashore...
Instantly a 40-foot flag of gasoline flames shook itself up from the gully, furbelowed with black. Captain Fonck and Lieutenant Curtin were found struggling to their feet, 20 yards from the inferno they had escaped before it burst. The flames had their way for hours. Then, certain cinders, a Koran, a crucifix, indicated where Charles Clavier and Jacob Islamoff had burned behind jammed doors. There was no angry inquiry as to why the "dolly" had not been finally tested. Pilot Fonck, Lieutenant Curtin, Designer Sikorsky and his aids, were all exonerated by the coroner of criminal negligence. Some "fanatics...