I got down. But the moment we came out upon the street, I stood riveted in __ __.

Broadway! Was it possible? The change was absolutely _________! In place of the roaring thoroughfare that I had known, this silent, moss-grown _________. Great buildings had fallen into ruin. The place was _________. Not a vehicle moved. There were no wires overhead — no sound of life or movement except, here andthere, there passed slowly _________ human figures dressed in the same asbestos clothes as my __________, with the same hairless faces, and the same look of _________ age upon them.

Good heavens! And was this the era of the _________ that I had hoped to see? I had always taken for granted that _________ was destined to move forward. This picture of desolation rendered me almost speechless.