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...jerked them out of the mittens to strike matches; stayed numb no matter how he pounded them together. Perhaps his little sticks were wet. But his fire would not start. That, quite simply, was death. The wolves came closer, their shadows black on the snow, shadows that merged, sprang apart, drifted closer...
...Atlantic City, five years ago, insurgents led by John L. Lewis and Sidney Hillman defied the hierarchy of the American Federation of Labor. Out of that convention sprang the Congress of Industrial Organizations. This week, gathering in the same Atlantic City hotel, C. I. O. itself threatened to split asunder. The opposing leaders of its wrangling factions: John Lewis and Sidney Hillman...
Egypt's foremost surgeon, Minister of Health Ali Ibrahim Pasha, hurried forward, shooed away nervous, crowding no tables, examined the prostrate body. He whispered a word to the King, into whose eyes tears sprang. Hassan Sabry Pasha's speech was indeed the shortest a Premier had ever delivered. He was dead...
...that he could not walk. First Rhazes ordered the emir's best horse to be saddled and brought into the court yard. Rhazes gave the emir hot showers and a stiff drink. Then, brandishing a knife, he cursed his patient, threatened to kill him. Furious, the crippled man sprang to his feet. With his patient hot on his trail, the doctor leaped on the horse and escaped. From a safe distance, he sent an explanation: the patient's fiery temper had dissolved the already softened humors. No one knows whether he enclosed a bill. But he added diplomatically...
...greatest of all straw polls, the Literary Digest's, took 2,376,523 straw votes by mail, and not only backed the wrong candidate but erred by 19% on the popular vote. It was a catastrophe to the Digest. It also left most of the pollsters who sprang up in the Digest's wake trembling in their boots for fear the Digest's fate might overtake them...