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Miss Smith did recall trying to use the tap unsuccessfully once yesterday to get a drink of water. Her efforts were rewarded by only a trickle of tepid rust, and she remembers turning this...
...respect the summer was better than usual: there had been almost no "Bermuda highs" - the masses of stagnant air which often loiter for days or weeks over the Atlantic. Slowly revolving in a clockwise direction, they plague the coast al areas with sweltering humid weather blown off the tepid Gulf Stream, make Manhattan seem like Manila or Singapore...
...dusk the caravan emerged onto the broad plains of the Tehuantepec Isthmus, where, ever since the days of Heman Cortes, men have talked of digging a Gulf-to-Pacific Canal. Brown families bathed in the tepid streams. At Tequi-sixtlan, brilliantly costumed Tehuana women danced the stately Llorona (The Weeper) to the music of a twelve-foot marimba. The politicos watched, and sipped the milk of green coconuts...
...praise for the departed, well larded with excuses for his weakness. "It was not so much that the principles of the League were rejected," mourned its ancient champion, 81-year-old Viscount Cecil, "[as that] the governments seemed to think all they needed to do was to give . . . tepid approval...
...pallbearer black, he drags out his days on a birdlike diet of bread crusts and boiled vegetables, in a barren, unheated apartment, aggressively campaigning to stimulate public interest in despondency.* Teppe has even offered a prize for the best Dolorist novel - "a scientific anatomy of pain, not a tepid caricature of misery." Teppe warns his disciples to shun society. Because nobody dares utter the complete truth, which is too cruel for people to withstand, "every conversation is a lie." Excitement too must be avoided ("enthusiasm is our enemy"). The biggest disillusionment of all is love. Says Teppe : "Love should...