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Inspector Pennington named no names, did not say any arrests had been made. He contented himself with a policemanly remark that the plot had been "nipped in the bud." The G-Man's story fell with a dull thud. Mr. Dies zoomed on to more lectures, bigger raids...
...weather, of the Christmas shutdown. In many a mill town the rising whine of the headsaw biting into a log dies away; the absence of the pulsing rhythm of a sawmill-compounded of the piercing wing-wing of the trimmer, of the throb of the conveyors, of the thud of lumber falling on transfer chains-makes every day seem like Sunday. The noon whistle, no longer a deep roar that reaches for miles through the woods, is just a perfunctory hoot for the millwrights working on repairs in the silent recesses of the mill. Workmen in this part...
Three days later it was. While the King & Queen waited out the last of an eight and a half hour alarm with a morning cup of tea the whole palace shivered with the thud of bombs from low-diving Nazi raiders. A bomb dropping through the glass roof of the private chapel, a converted conservatory, had blasted chunks of masonry out of the wall, demolished the altar, shattered a mother-of-pearl cross. In the midst of the rubble they found Queen Victoria's ornately bound Family Bible. But already removed to safety was the gold altar plate...
...Wrote Musicritic Alfred Frankenstein in San Francisco's Chronicle: ". . . Endlessly fascinating. I suspect the future of this experiment lies in assimilating itself ultimately to other types of instrumental resource. . . . There was something epical ... in seeing William Russell pound on a suitcase in his Chicago Sketches for the delicious thud that only a suitcase can provide...
...delay, no substitutes, heavy, meaty, buttery meals in abundance. The Government fell with a thud the moment we arrived in Paris. Conversation at dinner stuck to who would be who next day. All were for Reynaud except Henri Bernstein, who considers him a man of such value that his premier-power should be kept for a tougher time...