Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this was amateur Harvardmanship. Only in the last two decades have we seen the rise of the systematic Harvardman. The earliest of these was James FitzJames who worked out of Lowell House in the middle thirties. His favorite device was to disappear suddenly from College midway through January Reading Period, just about the time his friends began studing in earnest. Then, on the day of his first exam, he would return, strolling into the examination room five minutes late, dressed in a light Palm Beach suit and heavily tanned. Sitting down next to a friend he would inspect his exam...
...this was amateur Harvardmanship. Only in the last two decades have we seen the rise of the systematic Harvardman. The earliest of these was James FitzJames who worked out of Lowell House in the middle thirties. His favorite device was to disappear suddenly from College midway through January Reading Period, just about the time his friends began studing in earnest. Then, on the day of his first exam, he would return, strolling into the examination room five minutes late, dressed in a light Palm Beach suit and heavily tanned. Sitting down next to a friend he would inspect his exam...
...managed to track the raven down until recently a police commissioner in the neighborhood began to get letters ("Madame So-and-So caused two persons to disappear in 1943 and buried their bodies in her garden"). The commissioner got on the trail, arrested Madame Célestine Camille Martin, a 57-year-old pianist and World War I widow. Unable to make a living as a pianist, she had tried as best she could to eke out her meager 7,000 franc ($20) monthly pension. Last week a Paris court sentenced her to eight months in prison. The prospect...
Early in the week, at appropriately named Sabeh Garanieh Palace ("Palace of the Man of Bad Luck"), Richard Stokes had brought out Britain's plan. Recognizing the new forces at work, the old Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. would disappear; all the company's property in Iran would be transferred to the government-owned National Iranian Oil Co. A new purchasing organization set up by the British would buy the oil from National Iranian, market it, divide the net profits 50-50 with the Iranians. The purchasing organization and National Iranian would jointly create a third outfit to handle...
Spelunking along the Spanish border early this summer, Scientist Georges Lépineux watched a black mountain crow fly into a yawning pit and disappear. Since crows love dark recesses almost as much as speleologists do, Amateur Geologist Lépineux rushed to investigate. A small cave led off the pit floor, and a few feet inside the cave mouth a limestone chimney dropped away into darkness. Cautiously, Lépineux heaved a rock into the opening, waited for the faint, faraway sounds of its fall. Then he rushed to report his discovery...