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...crocheting in the lobby. Elsewhere along the river conditions were not up to par either, Small crafts of all kinds were in abundance, but the mammoth yachts of old, from the great three-masted schooners to the nearocean liners of the more opulent old grads, were still in the moth balls in which they have lanquished since...
...butterflies were specimens rare beyond price-an Adaluma urumelia, silky white tinged with blue; an Ogyris zozine splendida, the only one of its black and metallic-blue type ever known to have been netted; several Diana Moonbeams, whose dull purple shading excites collectors just as a light excites a moth...
Even the Moslem League's cold, uncompromising Mohamed Ali Jinnah was getting cold feet. He said: "The question of the partitioning of Bengal and Punjab is raised ... to unnerve the Moslems by . . . emphasizing that the Moslems will get truncated or mutilated in a moth-eaten Pakistan. . . . It's a mistake to compare the basic principle of demand for Pakistan [with] cutting up provinces throughout India into fragmentation...
...damp from the water under the Anderson Bridge. "Time for birds on the wing and crew men on the slides," he remembered. And gesturing to the waitress for two more bottles and a couple of hot pastromis, he made a mental note to get his seersuckers out of the moth balls before the end of the week...
Republicans, who control the Senate, did not seem to be listening. The whole thing, it seemed, might subside; McKellar would clump off on his moth-eaten charger and Lilienthal would be confirmed. Then, last week, something happened...