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...gardens. A colt on an estancia, flinging itself up with angry tears in its eyes after the humiliation of branding. The lovely flowered race course at Santiago, somehow English and somehow Swiss. The miracle of a transatlantic telephone conversation, across the mighty Andes, across the pampas and the sea wrack to one's own apartment in the Champ-de-Mars. Bristling, pastel-colored Andean peaks whose ice-covered escarpment separates like some fabulous wall-top of broken glass the nations of Argentina and Chile. Nitrates waiting at the port of Antofagasta to enrich the Guggenheims. The atrocious destitution...
...BYRNE (Dermot) Wrack and Other Stories. Mint in Dust Wrapper...
Such were last week's battle cries in the Republican national campaign as it crept into its final month. All G. 0. Partisans were saying approximately the same thing: "Hoover saved the country from wrack and ruin; give him a chance to finish the job." Such a defensive drive was difficult to make because the electorate, battered by hard times, seemed in no mood to be sweetly reasoned out of its grouch against the Administration. Most Republican managers, despite their required official optimism, admitted off the record that the party had on its hands an ominous, perhaps hopeless fight...
...housekeeper, raised chickens, milked cows. Dana was mentally unbalanced. He used to wander into the woods, let his hair grow long, pretend to be a "wild man." Declared legally incompetent by the courts, he was placed under the guardianship of Housekeeper Dockery. "Glenwood," once a fine mansion, went to wrack & ruin. Chickens, ducks, pigs, goats, dogs roamed at will through its high-ceiled rooms. Filth and trash littered the floors. Old tin cans were strewn about a dusty library of fine volumes, furniture vanished in debris. The squalid scene with its half-mad characters was strongly suggestive of the morbid...
...over one mile of telephone wire. For convenience the decibel and not the bel is used in U. S. researches. A quiet home registers 40 decibels. Normal loudness of human conversation is 60. Upward, toward 100, noise becomes increasingly plaguy and bothersome. Some noises, measured in decibels, which may wrack the nerves, dull the minds of New York school children...