Word: sewermen
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...weeks. Driving vans, they transported their equipment, including six torches, 27 oxyacetylene bottles and several heavy hydraulic jacks, to Nice's Palais des Expositions, roughly a mile from the Place Massena, the town center. There they dismantled crash barriers that blocked access to an underground roadway built for sewermen alongside the River Paillon, which runs below street level through the middle of town. Following the road to a point near the Place Massena, they connected with a sewerage line that led about 440 yds. to a point 30 ft. from the bank's strong room. Then they laid...
Whiting also creates a character of his own, a sewer worker, whose humble earthiness eventually teaches Grandier to find God in his fellow man. Whiting purposely contrasts the sewerman's habitual obscenities with both the eloquence of Grandier and the blasphemies of the hysterical Prioress. While the sewermen explains to Grandier about the caged bird he holds before him in the sewer to detect poisonous fumes, Grandier steps non-chalantly over an open manhole. Later Grandier will be imprisoned and sacrificed like the bird. Such subtle touches paint a picture of a man who constantly defies fortune and of whom...
...clean and decent poor" (famed Backbone of England) and for "the brotherhood of working journalists, salt of the earth." For criminals, his specialty, he has neither admiration nor sympathy-"not even a sneaking sympathy. They are a little less interesting than lunatics, a little less romantic than sewermen. Their lives are drab and ugly, fuggy and fusty, and the majority 'go crook' only because they are too lazy or too unintelligent to earn an honest living." Yet he makes them both interesting and romantic in yarns that palpitate with thrills and suspense, mystery and bizarre glamor...
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