Word: alighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DEATH FROM A TOP HAT - Clayton Rawson-Putnam ($2). Two murders in locked rooms in one day; both victims and all suspects expert magicians; the solution by an expert, retired conjurer. Ingenious plot, amiable spoofing of detective-story formulas, alight story weakened by overlong discussions of parlor tricks...
Stenthing Providence and Cambridge police wound up their two-months' hunt for the snatcher of valuable Peabody Museum masterpieces by pouncing on alight, 25-year old Theodore Oleson in the Rhode Island capital yesterday...
This week on Jan. 7 events were to proceed as follows at The; Hague: The happy pair drive out in the State Coach (presented to Queen Wilhelmina at the time of her marriage in 1901) and alight at the Town Hall with its onion-topped steeple, to have their civil marriage performed. Oranges hang decoratively from Hague trees in honor of the Royal House of Orange-Nassau and nips of gin are downed by the sturdy Dutch in the frosty air. The royal coach rolls on to the Great Church of Saint James, and the Rev. Dr. Welter, former court...
...honor, you may take it, Gentlemen" but when they pieced together such facts as there were, these would seldom or never fit what the Lord-in-Waiting had said. Brownlow's greatest feat was to go for a long ride with Mrs. Simpson, closely followed by correspondents, and alight to vow on his sacred honor as an English Lord-in-Waiting that "not a single word" had passed the lips of Mrs. Simpson. She had been seen moving them at Lord Brownlow brightly...
...propaganda neither Edda nor Galeazzo saw much future. When Il Duce got ready to start a war, they did, however, see that Count Ciano as an aviator dropped the first bombs, and was the first Italian to alight in Addis Ababa. He and the Dictator's two bombing sons did so well at making headlines for themselves that Father Mussolini ordered that they never be mentioned again in this connection, lest they get swelled heads. Ciano, according to brother aviators, is an in different pilot, but recklessly brave. He eats more spaghetti, prepared with copious melted butter and cheese...