Word: dieses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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At the beginning of the book, Albert Grope is going to board school while his widowed mother chars, washes, mangles (irons). He gets a job with a butcher and is discharged. He gets a job with a second-hand bookdealer and out of his savings, when the dealer dies, sets...
Men marked by prowess but by no particular ambition, David and Charles live hard but enjoyably in the wilderness, go on great sprees when they come to town, feel no need of a change. Then one day in the forest they run into measly little Grosjean and his desirable woman...
But Hoff is a soldier: he goes through with his plan. There are no hitches. He shoots the Prime Minister, makes a clean getaway, but decides not to escape to Switzerland, to stay in Berlin instead. Then his frozen will begins to thaw. To his horror he begins to realize...
At Nice, France, Charles Rancurel, sent to Devil's Island as an incorrigible burglar in 1915, who escaped in 1924. was recaptured in 1926 and who escaped again in 1928, walked into an almost certain trap at his mother's doorstep. Arrested, he cried: "Let me see mother...
"If some one dies, you call in a Chinaman, put the deceased in a box, or sack if you haven't a box, and the Chinaman packs the remains neatly on the chair and trots off to the cemetery. I saw several funerals like that.