Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 11, 2025
"You see," the boy went on, "I got tired of living in Chicago, and sleeping in alleys in summer and warm hallways in winter, so I just made up my mind I'd make a break for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." "But how did you come to walk up into this country?"
Hats and garments, cash-boxes and account-books, littered the hallways, and were piled in little heaps at the entrances to the elevators impedimenta that must inevitably be abandoned at the last if life itself were to be saved. And the final tragedy an elevator cage that had jammed in its ways and so hung fixed between two landings.
We mounted one flight of stairs, I remember, and after passing through two or three winding hallways and down another flight, came out on a side street. After a pause to observe the street before we ventured forth, Henry said: "I guess we're all right now. We must chance it, anyhow."
By pressing a button beside the door on entering, however, Lanyard could have obtained light in the hallways for five minutes, or long enough to enable any tenant to find his front-door and the key-hole therein; at the end of which period the lamps would automatically have extinguished themselves.
They passed out, and both were silent as they threaded the corridors and hallways; but in Jasmine's face was a light of exaltation and of secret triumph. "We must give Jigger a good start in life," she said, softly, as they entered her sitting-room. Jigger had broken down many barriers between her and the man who, a week ago, had been eternities distant from her.
The ship plowed on, its great lights cutting a steady course over the black water, its whole bulk quivering to the heartbeat of the mighty engines; whispered good-nights and laughing good-nights were said in the narrow, hot hallways. Lights went out in cabin after cabin. The decks were dark and deserted.
The middle rooms must borrow what light they can from dark hallways, the shallow shafts, and the rear rooms. Their air must pass through other rooms or the tiny shafts, and cannot but be contaminated before it reaches them.
These were the girls whom one heard declaring that they could dance all night, the girls who could dance until they dropped. Other of the couples danced with the greatest languor and gravity, their arms held out rigid and at right angles with their bodies. About the doors and hallways stood the unhappy gentlemen who knew no one, watching the others dance, feigning to be amused.
There stood the footman with the vein in his nose and without a word he led the way through various rooms and hallways to the porte-cochere entrance. We passed out quickly, and to our surprise there stood the Glow-worm under the porte- cochere with the lamps all lighted and the tanks filled. In a moment we were speeding down that driveway again and out into the midnight.
It was a place packed with human beings houses, hallways, alleys, sidewalks and porches swarming with children. Goethe tells how he at times would peep through the iron gates of the Ghetto, but as a child he never ventured in. The children told one another how human sacrifices were offered in the synagogues, and as proof, pictures of Abraham and Isaac were brought forth that proved the point.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking