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...Lindbergh drove up a Trenton alley and went into the frame morgue building. When he looked at the remains, one report said, he fainted. He asked for a lock of his child's hair. Next afternoon he returned to make an official identification of the remains. Then, as mute housewives watched over their back fences, he came out of the building following some men with a small oak box. He and Col. Henry Breckinridge, his companion and legal adviser through the past ten agonizing weeks, accompanied the box to Linden, N. J. In a square, grey building with a straight...
...kinds of odd figures and queer items poured forth from the mute pages of the 1931-32 records of the purchasing office yesterday, when they were pulled from their steel filling-cabinets...
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...Kansas City, Norman D. Hunt, deaf mute, was jealous of the attentions which his friend, Louis Coleman, deaf, showed his wife. Suspicious, he went to Louis Coleman and demanded in sign language: "Where were you at noon today?" "None of your business!" Coleman signalled back. Pulling a pistol, Deaf Mute Hunt shot Louis Coleman dead, marched to a police station, pushed a note across the sergeant's desk: "I shot a man on Monroe Street, [signed] Norman D. Hunt...
...Cambridge a foot of slush lies in the Square, mute tribute to a Street Department which feels that destruction of snow is a unique act of God. Galoshes appear, gutters run, taxis spatter, professors swear, officials sit. Students get wet feet, students get colds, students consider Stillman, students do not consider Stillman. Women slip, men assist, men slip. Clothes are changed, there are no clothes to change. Umbrellas are lost, cars skid, fenders crumble, the Yard is beautiful, Mt. Auburn is not, officials sit, board walks are shoveled. Cambridge is slush girt. Cambridge is noisy and hurried, and surpassingly ugly...