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...Hurt Cur. Mrs. Heady last week showed no remorse at hearing her confession read in court. She lolled, squinted and smiled, scratched her nose, plucked at her shoulder straps. The next day she was less content. Hall's confession was read, and Bonnie reacted with a hurt-cur look to his frequent references to her being drunk and "again inebriated." Hall said that when he was arrested in St. Louis by Police Lieut. Shoulders and a patrolman, he still had about $592,000 of the $600,000 ransom money. Some $300,000 is still missing...
...Attack. In Philadelphia, firemen blamed the burning of Mrs. Hattie Cur ry's house on a bird that tried to use a lighted cigarette to build its nest...
...place with their identification papers. The German soldiers began roughly turning people out of their houses. "Get up to the square," some of them shouted in French. The sick came in their pajamas. Marcelin Thomas, the town baker, appeared, stripped to the waist and still covered with flour, while Curé Jacques Lorich strode along hatless. Mothers came pushing baby carriages. In less than 20 minutes, the populace was assembled, about a third of them children. Only then did the French notice that these were no ordinary Germans...
...plumbing which made life miserable for First Ladies of other administrations. The house now boasts a white and stainless-steel electric kitchen in which meals for the largest banquet can be prepared, three automatic dishwashers, a laundry, silk-smooth parquet floors, three elevators, 16 bathrooms, and new paint, new cur- tains, new draperies, as well as its price less old antiques and paintings...
...prince has never given up his pursuit of those pleasures. As a dapper, rakish fin de siècle student at the Sorbonne, he got the nickname Cur Non (Why Not?) because of his debonair pursuit of food and fun. (He added the "sky" a few years later when the Czar's fine fleet came to visit France.) In 1921, already famed as a gourmet, he began to write his masterpiece, France Gastronomique, in 28 volumes. "When you're searching for good places to eat in provincial towns," wrote Curnonsky, "see the doctors, the cabdrivers and the priests...