Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louisiana's gravel-voiced Governor Earl Long decided to give adjourning members of the State Legislature a pat on the back. Both the House and the Senate had all but walked on their hands to do his will, had raised taxes by $80 million dollars, upped old-age pensions, wreaked revenge on his enemies in New Orleans, and given him vast political power. Earl made his thanks as handsome as possible. Said he: "I don't think I've ever seen a legislature with less drunkenness and less rowdyism...
...Kuala Lumpur. While some of the rebels pinned the police to their barracks with heavy automatic fire, others expertly sabotaged the coal mine-the only one operating in all Malaya. Shooting up a school bus and murdering a foreman and four workers, 37 of the bandits, including a teen-age girl, swept down on the railway station and held up an incoming train. The rebel leader emptied the railroad cash box, snapped: "We only want European property. We are going to kill every white man in Malaya." As the rebels left, the girl guerrilla took the station first-aid hamper...
Less ambitious, but even more to the Parisian taste, were the exploits of 23-year-old "Pierrot le Fou" (Crazy Pete), who made his seventh jailbreak in three years. Wavy-haired Pierrot (real name: Pierre Carrot) began his career as an escape artist at the age of 20, when he pretended to hang himself in his cell and knocked out the jailer who rushed to cut him down. Recaptured some months later, Pierrot sawed his way into the cell of a condemned murderer. Then Pierrot used an iron bar to dispose of the guards who came to escort the murderer...
...been just 20 years since four teen-age students at London's Royal Academy of Music had gone together to a concert of Belgium's famed Pro Arte String Quartet, of which Maas was the cellist. They came away determined to form a quartet of their own. The four-Violinists Sidney Griller and Jack O'Brien, Cellist Colin Hampton and Violist Philip Burton-decided over a pint of beer that the way to become a quartet was to live together, break all family ties, refuse engagements to play separately...
...Texas to Oregon, with bullfights, treacherous river-fordings, antelope hunts and climatic disturbances at every turn in the road-and the grammar was sometimes tired after the strenuous trip. Last week's installment ("The Terrible Rain Storm with Thunder & Lightning") had carried the author only up to the age of eleven. But Publisher Frank Schiro would have no objections if Autobiographer Fallwell outrecalled Thomas Wolfe...