Word: compartmentized
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Over & over right-wing newspapers kept demanding how these things could have gone on without official protection. Stavisky parallels were easy to find. Chief Inspector Fressard of the Lille police received threats of violent death unless he dropped the case. Two Paris shopkeepers, wanted by the police to tell what...
He was nearing 50 and his long greying hair gave him something of the diabolic appearance of Paganini. He went to Rome with his faithful Princess; in 1865, after he discovered they could not get married, he took minor orders in the Roman Church. But the Abbe Liszt had not...
In the winter of 1932-33 newshawks covering the President-elect first noted the formal relations between his daughter Anna and her husband, big, bald-browed Curtis Bean Dall. At the inauguration, Son-in-Law Dall put in a polite appearance, later visited the White House for a birthday party...
Food rations were down to a quarter of a pound per person and machine guns were spattering the St. Petersburg streets with dead when a family of five Russian Jews who lived in one small room across from the central police station scrambled a few belongings together and hastily escaped...
When he boards the Twentieth Century Limited for New York with his tippling press agent (Roscoe Karns) and his fretful business manager (Walter Connolly), Lily Garland turns up in the next compartment. Their entire trip is consumed in efforts to get her signature on a contract. The appearance in his...