Word: compartmentized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Narrator of The Last of Mr. Norris is a young English Communist-intellectual. On a train to Berlin he shares a compartment with an older man, whose beautiful wig and inexplicable nervousness excite his curiosity. The young man soon discovers many a queer fact about bewigged Mr. Norris: he is...
¶ Sequel to this dogfight came in the testimony of a handsome brunette named Elsie Walker who said that a Cities Service Co. undercover agent had planted her in Frank Parish's office. She explained that the agent had promised to help her out of certain financial difficulties if...
Each compartment has its own radio, mirror, table, washstand with hot & cold running water. At the rear of the coach is a men's lavatory and women's lounge with lavatory, dressing table, mirror, settee. Passengers prepare for bed in perfect privacy, standing up. On duty at all...
Through travelers hand their passports to the French porter, are seldom disturbed by frontier passport control officers except for a quick glance, or occasionally at night a rap on the compartment door and the stab of a flashlight. If suspected of being a spy, the thing to do is to...
Bound for Florida, Mrs, Alfred Emanuel Smith was standing in a compartment on the Seaboard Air Liner Orange Blossom Special, when the train rounded a curve near Richmond, lurched, threw her heavily against a window ledge. Her husband summoned a doctor who treated her hastily, told her she could go...