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That left 15. In the shivering crowd around the mine's entrance, 13 new widows and their 31 children began the lament Plymouth had heard after two other Nottingham explosions-in 1890 (eight dead) and in 1910 (seven dead). While gas-masked rescuers battled for their bodies, the names of the dead-Craynik, Parker, Zonobrowski, Bockus, Wilde, Ostrowski, Lewis-ran through the dark like a sigh...
...week's end the Council still had a respectable list. It included: Christian Gauss, dean emeritus of Princeton; Mrs. Thomas W. Lament, wife of the board chairman of J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc.; Gerard Swope, honorary president of General Electric; the Most Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church...
Croteau is not the sort of man you'd expect in the wispy levels of morality. He stands with his feet firmly in the muck, in full knowledge of what goes on in Boston, and why, and whom to go to see to have it stopped. His great lament is the overplay given the Society's censorship activities, which take only ten percent of its efforts and even less of its $2,500,000 endowment. Outside the field of censorship, Watch and Ward is just another Legion of Decency, an unofficial vice squad that has the support of most communities...
...Bright Day is a disenchanted view of 1946-style life, and a lament for the good old days when life struck a harmonious balance between work and play. Hero Gregory Dawson is a successful movie-script writer of about Priestley's own age (55); he divides his time between feverishly churning out a perfumed movie story and feverishly recalling the days when rich Yorkshire wool merchants went home to play Schubert of an evening. By the time he has written finis to his tawdry script, Dawson has also decided to write finis to his tawdry career. Henceforth, with trade...
Saltonstall, a history teacher at Exeter since 1932, was just going to bed one night when Board Chairman Thomas S. Lament and retiring Principal Lewis Perry called and took him to the Exeter Inn. There the trustees broke the news. Students heard about it at Sunday chapel. They followed him home. Exeter's cheerleader called for "nine rahs for Saltonstall," and had trouble getting it out. Bill grinned. "Just call me Salty," he said...