Word: outer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foggy twilight last week, New York radio stations suddenly stopped broadcasting and the air was filled with SOS calls. While radio listeners wondered what the silence might portend, there was administered in the outer reaches of New York Harbor what might be called perfect disaster treatment. It began when passengers on the British steamship Fort Victoria, inching along in the soupy mist toward Bermuda, heard the bedlam of fog warnings, the fierce, hoarse blasts of a whistle which seemed altogether too near. Then the prow of the Clyde liner Algonquin, outbound for Galveston, loomed out of the murk and buried...
...Christmas tree under the tropic sun, or?as in Nicaragua last year?by knocking together a make-believe chimney out of packing boxes, filling the "hearth" with tinsel for fire, and hanging up their biggest socks to be stuffed with joke presents. But hardboiled fighting men on the outer marches of the U. S. Empire have little use for hymns of peace. More likely are they to drown out anything suggestive of home or homesickness with their corps anthem, "From the Halls of Montezuma," a song of many unprintable versions...
...little later, perfectly composed, the tough old patient said to Dr. de Gennes as though speaking of the weather, "I am suffering atrociously in my intestines." Pain quickened into torture. "Let me take off your outer clothing!" pleaded Sister Theoneste. But the Tiger was obstinate. For years he has gone to bed fully dressed, merely kicking off his slippers and loosening his collar. "Because how do I know at what moment I may get up and write?" The iron will had begun to melt when at last he let the Sister put him into night clothes...
Toward daybreak the gunmen took a grumpy departure. One of the prisoners had wriggled free, released his companions, spread the alarm. Police, detectives, Naval officials hastened to the scene. Roundabout the safe room were strewn nitroglycerine cans, percussion caps, crowbars, electric drills, gloves, an acetylene torch. The outer door of the massive safe, its lock drilled and mangled, was open. The inner door, dented, drilled, wrenched on its hinges, was shut. For three hours a safe expert knifed the steel door with an oxyacetylene torch, at last swung it open Potent though the raid had been, the $84.500 was intact...
Father Power died at 25, of phthisis, some 60 years ago. About 30 years later rumor crept about that his grave held miraculous powers of healing. Fortnight ago the rumors grew and flew. From Boston, from all New.England, from the outer-States and Canada came the sick, the halt, the blind, the faithful, the curious; also quick-lunch vendors, souvenir postcard hawkers, trinket peddlers, troublemakers. From dawn to dusk, day after day, the slow-shuffling queue wound through the cemetery to the silent grave, heaped with flowers, surrounded with guttering vigil lights. Boston's Irish Catholic Mayor-elect James Michael...