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...Only eight remained. The sun went down, another tomcat lost its freedom. Dusk fell, and with it two more tomcats. As darkness crept into the Dornsife house the officers called for lights. The lights had been turned off days before. Smiling sardonically, the Widow Dornsife refused to produce a lamp...
...Dublin, President de Valera was rousingly cheered. Dublin's Republican newspaper An Phoblacht cried: "We are the one country in Western Europe that can face temporary isolation with enthusiasm! We have ample source of food and other essentials." Next morning Dublin awoke to find buildings, billboards and even lamp posts plastered with: BOYCOTT BRITISH GOODS...
...falling. They blinded motorists, delayed traffic. In dance halls they got between the cheeks of dancers. In dark taxicabs they caused many a false accusation. At Bellevue Hospital internes with folded newspapers beat them away from alcoholics who might have mistaken them for seagulls. Thousands perished on freshly painted lamp posts. Police were called, were sympathetic but impotent. The moths had already put the police wireless out of commission...
...clean in; 3) to relax in. It is the cinema bathroom on a small scale. It has a bath-rail beside the tub for books, cigarets and a tea set. It has a vertical handrail to hold onto while one steps into the tub. There is a sun-ray lamp, a pillowed rubber mat on the floor. There are closets with sliding glass doors for towels and clothes. There are shadowless mirrors. The bathroom denizen may stand on a given spot in the floor and see his weight indicated on the wall in front of him. The bathroom...
...Babylon and Nineveh and ancient Rome," cried he, "wallowed in the wealth of material prosperity, stood naked and unashamed in their perdition?and suc- cumbed. But the human lamp posts of Xero. the men, women and children thrown to the lions at the Colosseum for a Roman holiday, gave us the artesian springs of Christianity that rule the world, while the splendors of Rome are almost forgotten memories...