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...churches, many of them flimsy as eggshells, suffered badly. A soo-pound bomb embedded itself deep in the street near St. Paul's Cathedral, which sits unsteadily on foundations of wet sand. The delayed action of such bombs as this and the first one which damaged Buckingham Palace was regulated not by a timing mechanism, which would not survive the bomb's fall, but by the slow action of acid eating through a metal plate. After four days the St. Paul's bomb was finally removed by a "suicide squad" and exploded in a marsh outside...
...Chesapeake-Delaware Bay area, 'which produces 60% of U. S. oysters. Stronghold of the private company is Long Island, which produces 25%. Cultivated oysters bring the higher prices. The inlets of Long Island shelter them from the high wind and rough weather which often smother them with sand, feed them enough fresh water to supply the copper and other minerals that tasty oysters need...
...Eros had not said good-by to her. The same year Comrade Sand met Pianist Chopin. He was 27 and she was 33. Said he: "What an utterly unsympathetic woman!" Said she: He is "an angel with the face of a grieving woman." The angel had had a hard time in the world since his arrival from Warsaw. When the unsympathetic woman offered him the comforts of her home, the angel accepted. The arrangement was not altogether happy. "After all," wrote Balzac to his great friend, Madame Hanska, "she is a man and wants...
...Comrade Sand had been working for the revolution of 1848 for years, but she was somewhat surprised when it came. Soon she was acting minister of propaganda in the revolutionary government. She drew up plans for insurrection in the provinces, wrote bulletins, articles, proclamations. She was not even perturbed when her neighbors, conservative working people, marched on her country home, shouting: "Death to Madame Dudevant! Death to the Communists!" When the counterrevolution began and her friends were shot in batches, she retired to the country. For years she was all but forgotten...
...Authoress Sand was by no means finished. Suddenly at 46 she took to writing plays. Her Le Marquis de Villemer was a smash hit. Her anticlerical novel, Mademoiselle La Quintinie, was a bestseller. Napoleon III read all her books, went to the first nights of all her plays his censor did not ban. In 1863 she dined regularly with the Goncourts, Maupassant, Zola, Taine, Renan, Gautier, Flaubert. Most of them admired her as people admire a prehistoric skeleton. But with Flaubert she struck up a warm friendship. His genius was not yet recognized: she urged him to work, though...