Word: dossier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back on Prince," admonished Circus Manager Alexandre Bouglione as Steinmann prepared to enter the cage. A breathless girl in black rushed up to wish the trainer bonne chance. "This," shouted the lawyer for the defense, "is all irrelevant," but nobody paid any attention. A court bailiff pulled a green dossier from his overcoat pocket and settled down to take notes...
...That, Engel modestly admitted, was nothing. In 50 years of polished wooing, he figured he had extracted "millions-maybe $5 or $6 million" from gullible women. Police couldn't begin to list all the women he had taken to wife, but back in 1927, the dossier showed more than 40 marriages. Finally caught up, Confidence Man Engel was willing to reveal a few professional secrets of the widow racket. Among them: always be a gentleman-subordinate sex; send red roses, not orchids; always give the impression you have lots of money. "I'm a parlay player," said Engel...
While this voluminous dossier was being assembled, Ecker and Mrs. Brine spent several days at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, of which Oppenheimer is the head. They came away with enough information to fill a 57-Page report. At lunch in the Institute cafeteria a staff member told them that although the staff, the economists, the humanists, the mathematicians, etc. usually ate at their respective tables, Oppenheimer was at home with all of them. As for herself she added: "There's just no use trying to eat lunch with a mathematician. They won't leave...
William S. Honneus, advertising manager of TIME International, returned recently from an extensive business trip to Western Europe with a dossier full of firsthand observations of the European scene. The following excerpts from his personal account may serve to add another viewpoint to the excellent reports of the trained correspondents of the U.S. press abroad...
...leave in seven days because I had a 14-day-old daughter. He escorted me up one echelon where a somewhat more pleasant official said I could have 15 days to get out of the country. When I once more asked why, he shuffled through my dossier, looked up and naively said: 'I'm not supposed to tell...