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...only dependable man in the Utopia was Grandfather Bucklin, a rangy 88-year-old who strode the porch in a bathrobe and forbade the children to utter a word. Right after Grandfather Bucklin's funeral, the hitherto-speechless Aleck burst into a torrent of verbiage that left his mother speechless with admiration. It is no wonder, says Biographer Adams, that Woollcott grew into "a devoted crusader for free speech and independent thought...
...tough, able William Franklin Kirk of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Co., on loan to the Office of Defense Transportation. Bill Kirk is no novice at playing the western railroad keyboard for all it is worth. After some two and a half years of watching over a swelling torrent of war freight, Railroader Kirk is reputed to know every siding west of the Mississippi River...
Both held themselves aloof from the throng, waiting impatiently for a reply. When the answer came back negative, the Princess stormed in a torrent of German and stilted English, then wept while her harassed, haggard husband tried to comfort her. Other refugees looked on incuriously, each wrapped in his own cares. When her weeping slackened, she turned to the G.I. guarding the bridge with an ingratiating smile: "But you don't understand, they are going to kill...
...steady stream of Frenchmen returning from German bondage became a torrent. In a single day last week 20,000 repatriated prisoners poured through the Government's reception centers. They were tired men, smiling out of their fatigue, longing fiercely for home. Fiercely longing women met them...
...optimistic of national unification and the future of democratic government in our country. The torrent of public opinion demanding national unity and reconstruction is mounting ever stronger and will soon become an irresistible force...