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...last week, James Wilson was almost as sound as ever-he still ate anything he wanted, and could read the Bible without his spectacles. His face was almost unwrinkled, his hearing unimpaired and he still had nine teeth. When friends and relatives called, James Wilson stood on the front porch and made a 15-minute speech with sweeping gestures. Nervously, his audience asked him to sit down...
...fear. ... If you request protection you will get it." One day a group of strangers turned up in his yard. Their leader identified himself as a Quaker, a member of the Friends Service Committee. While neighbors peered, the Quakers cut the lawn, painted out the offending signs, swept the porch. Beaming, Shigeo Nagaishi rushed out with Coca-Cola and cookies, told his good neighbors he had decided to stay in Seattle...
...nchen-Gladbach, Corporal Sidney Talmud of the 38th Canal Construction Battalion decided to celebrate the Ninth Army's assault crossing of the Rhine and the Passover season. On the porch of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels' onetime home, he set up a camp stove and made potato pancakes for passersby...
...contracted tuberculosis, but refused to go to a healthier climate until he had finished Looking Backward's sequel, Equality. In Colorado, the current treatment-exercise and creosote-further weakened him. He returned to Chicopee Falls, managed to walk from the carriage to the rocking chair on the front porch, slumped into it, said "Thank God I'm home." A month later, on May 22, 1898, he died...
...Langs got for Grandma's house, the store was the biggest adventure of their lives. Until this point, Lower than Angels seems only another story of the decline of the lower middle class. But this store makes money. A tan, two-story-and-attic house, with its porch remodeled into a store front, it stood in a village where there were sycamore and elm trees over the streets, a Methodist Church where Marvin got converted in a whirlwind revival campaign, the drugstore where he got his first job. There was a big house owned by rich people where Marvin...