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Word: alencon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cool and confident in his superior strength and wisdom one day last week, Henri Villette, a 67-year-old barrelmaker of Alencon, clapped an unwanted kitten into a musette bag and set out for the Sarthe River to drown it. On the river's bank he slipped and fell. The kitten crawled to safety. Henri's drowned body was found later by local firemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORA & FAUNA: The War of the Worlds | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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