Word: avidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chloe, police learned, enjoyed a high rating for intelligence in her school, where she was a year ahead of her class. She was an avid reader of fiction, newspapers, crime stories. She told this nightmare tale with stupendous composure. Throughout her questioning, she stuck to her story, said finally: "I'd like to have some soup and a piece of lemon cream pie." Steadfast in his belief that Chloe was telling the truth was her stricken father...
...With the One Coin for Fee two aging women, girlhood friends, meet after many years as 1938's New England hurricane blows up. One is at the end of a sexually avid and shameless career; the other is a spinster who jealously despises her. They die in the hurricane, reconciled...