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...delving, hedging and ditching, we pass. . . . Summer and winter, autumn and spring return. . . . All passes but we, all changes . . . but we remain forever the same. . . ." They remind you of Evelyn Waugh; yet in Mrs. Woolf's many-planed perspective they are also in truth the nameless human swarm...
...Capitol: the problem of hanging a historical picture. Since historical pictures cover a lot of space, Capitol Architect David Lynn and a special crew of workmen equipped with pulleys, rollers and winches clambered up and down the Capitol's stairways and through its second-story windows like a swarm of hungry ants tugging at a dead grasshopper. First they removed Francis Bicknell Carpenter's modest mural, First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, size 9 by 14, from its 63-year-old place above the east Grand Stairway just off the Capitol's lower chamber. Then...
Satan's ranks will scatter, Wotan's swarm depart...
...stocks somewhere between keel-laying and launching (therefore not included in Navy's totals) were four battleships (including two 45,000-tonners, Iowa and New Jersey), a swarm of cruisers, destroyers and submarines. All but a few units of its two-ocean fleet should be in commission...
Merchants complain that they are blackmailed by a swarm of food speculators who sell them illegal supplies when normal stocks are gone, thereafter force them to go on doing business with them or be handed over to the police. Although retailers are licensed, wholesalers are not; as many as ten middlemen in some cases may pile up their profits in the dark. The London Daily Herald has unearthed a nest of "speakeasy" restaurants dealing in illicit food supplies...