Word: rescuers
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...other story, full of pathos, concerns the young Freshman from the West, uninitiated in the social arts, who found himself unexpectedly on a dance floor with an attractive girl. To his horror, he suddenly felt someone tap him on the shoulder and away went gliding his beauty with her rescuer...
...Four miles downstream the police boat Blankenburg, with 17 patrolmen aboard, put out to the rescue. An hour's churning through the ice-choked river brought it abreast of the derelict. Glowing with humane sentiments, Patrolman Edward Corliss crawled out on the ice. The dog snapped and snarled. Rescuer Corliss toppled into the freezing Delaware. His 16 comrades made a double rescue...
...corner, a small, ferret-like individual bumped into him, nearly bowling him over; in the confusion, the tie dropped into the gutter. The small one, before our friend could move, darted to pick it up. Its owner muttered thanks, and extended his hand for the object. But its rescuer withheld it, moving slowly back and examining it intently; finally, when our friend was beginning to lose his grip, the other handed him the tie and said: "Thanks. I've always wanted to see one of those things close up." Then he swung off, as rapidly as ever...
...indescribable picture," said a rescuer who helped prop one wing up with fenceposts to drag out victims. "Men were crying, 'Get me out!' and 'Oh, God, why doesn't somebody do something...
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