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...murk of the London slums, as he tells it himself, arose a "bloody bookworm" named Fred Bason. At 15, Fred already had his own library, consisting of Treasure Island, Swiss Family Robinson, Liza of Lambeth, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Pears' Cyclopædia, the 1881 volume of the Strand magazine, Wild Wales and Two Years Before the Mast. He was much happier browsing through this library than he was lathering the "filthy faces [of] nasty old men" in a slum barbershop (his first job) or eating "sawdust and chips" at "the wrong end of a planing machine...
...Palo Alto, unbeaten Army over twice-beaten, once-tied Stanford, 7-0, in California rain, mud and murk, to extend the Cadets' victory streak to 28 straight...
...picture. Few disagreed with the experts' contention that it was worth what it cost. A product of Rembrandt's last, dirt-poor years, it glowed with a human warmth and depth that his earlier, slicker works lacked. The sitter's pensive, bloodshot eyes pierced the murk in which Rembrandt had muffled him; his melancholy, tight little smile reminded some visitors of the Mono, Lisa. Like her, the Young Man seemed to be silently inviting the spectator to enter the timeless, painted world in which he stood...
...depths as a World War I ambulance driver. He came back to a U.S. racked by social and economic change, threw himself into the defense of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Before long, like many another idealist of his generation, Dos Passos had plunged deep into the murk of Marxism. The murk slightly distorted his otherwise vivid, sprawling trilogy of 20th Century America, U.S.A., which remains his most notable contribution to U.S. writing...
...first the hospital ship's fate was completely cloaked by fog and silence. Then, as the first rescue vessel crept through the murk off Seal Rocks, lookouts spotted what looked like scores of tennis balls floating on the offshore swell...