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Word: crawbett (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1932-1932
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...Cherie makes them. Unfortunately a German agent, Staub, to whom she once gave her love for a few postcards of France and a gilded Eiffel Tower of lead, and who has since gone to the dogs because of a native marriage, finds her out and lets U. S. Commissioner Crawbett know. Cherie collects the money from Tsamatsui, buys everything necessary for her voyage home. On her last afternoon she strolls into the American Zone. The bullet that hits her is legalized by two bottles of liquor thrust into her stiffening hands. Home at last to France sails Cherie, tenderly laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: French Foundling | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

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