During heavy rains, river water flowed in a greasy plume far out into Lake Michigan, to the towers that marked the intake pipes for the city’s drinking water.
Dr. Hervey Cleckley described the prototypical psychopath as a subtly constructed reflex machine which can mimic the human personality perfectly. … So perfect is his reproduction of a whole and normal...
Both camps maneuvered to win the endorsement of Kaiser Wilhelm, who, as the nation’s supreme military leader, had the final say. He authorized U-boat commanders to sink any ship, regardless of flag or...
Through the hull—the rush of water past a prow, the thrum of propellers.
The hospital treated 11,602 patients, sixty-four a day, for injuries and ailments that suggest that the mundane sufferings of people have not changed very much over the ages. The list included: 820 ca...
Swamp
He bought his farm. The grueling work that had so worn on him during his boyhood now became for him both a soul-saving diversion and a romantic harking back to America’s past.
Thomas Wolfe wrote, Here was an entire nation … infested with the contagion of an ever-present fear. It was a kind of creeping paralysis which twisted and blighted all human relations.
These were the descendants of the colonials returning now at Britain’s hour of need, the moment captured in an immediately famous painting by Bernard Gribble, The Return of the Mayflower.
These were complicated people moving through a complicated time, before the monsters declared their true nature
The wheel had consumed 28,416 pounds of bolts in its assembly;
The men lived for the moment the boat ascended to the surface and the hatch in the conning tower was opened. The first breath of fresh air, the open conning-tower hatch and the springing into life of...
THE TRAIN CARRYING THE BODY OF ELLEN AXSON Wilson pulled into the station at Rome, Georgia, at 2:30 in the afternoon, Tuesday, August 11, 1914, under gunmetal skies, amid the peal of bells.
Stand with your back to the wind, he said, and the barometer will be lower on your left than on your right.
Some captains made no attempt to save the lives of merchant seamen; others went so far as to tow lifeboats towards land. One u-boat commander sent the captain of a torpedoed ship three bottles of wine...
On Monday, May 10, the coroner’s jury issued its finding: that the submarine’s officers and crew and the emperor of Germany had committed willful and wholesale murder. Half an hour later a message arr...
No system which implies control by privilege seekers has ever ended in any other way than collapse.
Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.
Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom that convulsed Germany and at last drove Roosevelt to issue a public condemnation. He told reporters he could scarcely believe that such a thing could occur in twentieth...
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost. —DANTE ALIGHIERI,The Divine Comedy: Canto I(Carlyle-Wicksteed Translation, 1932)