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...mushroomed up from the dumbwaiter shaft of his sleeping house in Boston's Back Bay where lay his crippled 70-year-old mother, four women servants and his four children, and suddenly the core of the house was a torrent of fire. Daughter Alice and her grandmother were roasted in their beds. Two maids were scorched off fourth floor window sills to which they clung, fell to their death. Mary, 13, with the fire on her back, jumped out a second story window and mortally hurt herself. Ellen Elaine, 6, jumped and survived with bad burns. Plucky little John...
First editions of "The Man Who Died Twice," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925, "The Prodigal Son," "Avon's Harvest" and many other of his lesser-known works are exhibited. The poet's first work "The Torrent and The Night Before" is to be seen with a personal inscription to President Eliot by the author, in his familiar indecipherable hand...
...week, but a lawyer friend of Ludendorff, Herr Robert Schneider, worked the crowd up to frenzy with attacks on the Papacy "for actively cooperating to encircle Germany in 1914 and provoke the World War!" This villainy Orator Schneider, who occasionally got his Popes and their characteristics mixed in the torrent of his harangue, seemed to attribute chiefly to peace-loving Pius X. Shouts of "Traitor!" and "Expel him!" filled the beer hall when Cardinal Faulhaber of Munich was accused by Lawyer Schneider of permitting anti-Nazi sermons by German prelates to be translated into French, "after which they...
...flabby-fingered Hitler handshake was cordial. Sir John, Baron von Neurath and their diplomatic suites occupied chairs facing the Great Orator in a semicircle. Then from Adolf Hitler burst such a torrent of compelling gutturals and animal magnetism as only he can turn...
Nominee & Platform. Two days after his nomination, Sinclair lit out for Hyde Park to receive the congratulations of a highly embarrassed President. Like the fabled Dutchman and the non-stop salt machine, the President was discovering that his New Deal liberalism was undamming an undisciplined torrent of independent Leftist movements all over the country: Huey Long's Share-the-Wealth Clubs, Prestonia Mann Martin's "Commons & Capitals," Dr. Francis Everett Townsend's pension scheme (TIME. Oct. 15). There was an EPIW in Washington. Some 200,000 persons were said to be enrolled in the Utopian Society...