Word: corsican
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...arrest of burly Andre Spada. notorious Corsican brigand (TIME. June 12): decision by authorities to hospitalize him for mental examination after he spent two weeks knitting socks, explained that it helps him communicate with...
...this case the Corsican comes to life in a wax works under the torrid gaze of a film actress (Lenore Ulric). He makes a date with her for the evening, borrows Woodrow Wilson's top hat, Mussolini's sponge-bag trousers and with some advice given by Landru, the wife-murderer, sets off to the assignation. Some French generals hear of the resurrection, insist that the Little Corporal make all Europe French. After a visit to a disarmament conference, a few experiences with radios and telephones, Napoleon goes back to the wax works in disgust. All this...
...chief imports were General Fournier, 800 gendarmes, armored cars, airplanes and bloodhounds to hunt out Corsica's fourth best-known product: burly, pouting Bandit Andre Spada. Spada, whose name means ''sword," acquired much newspaper fame from loose comparisons of his activities with those of the oldtime Corsican mountaineers. who waged simple vendettas against one another. Andre Spada was just a gangster...
...back, killed one. When a youth ran away with Spada's mistress, he murdered the boy's uncle and a woman cousin. Total murders: about twelve. Travelers on the road between Ajaccio and Sopigna paid him tribute as a matter of course. In 1931 when Depression-hit Corsicans asked for a reduced tribute, he ended the quibble by ducally closing the road for two months. Other income: extortion, blackmail. To this local boy who had made good rallied many an ambitious young Corsican. On the grounds that he mulcted the rich, he was popular with the poor...
...year to 18 months because of the small size of the conscript classes of 1934-5-6, born in Wartime. The Military Governor of Paris, one-armed General Henri Gouraud, announced mass training for the Paris population against gas attack this summer, under the direction of that effervescent Corsican, Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe...