Word: hager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were being laid out and catalogued. Among them were a set of Peking carpets from British expatriates in China, a dressing case fitted in tortoise shell from the city of Paris, twelve wedding cakes from Imperial outposts, some rubies from Burma and a silk nightdress from one Mrs. Clementine Hager...
...general bitterness, most of the delegations had also brought their own spies. Baron Hager, president of the Austrian Oberste Polizei und Censur Hofstelle, sent secret reports daily to Emperor Francis. Sample: "The Emperor of Russia went out at 7 p.m. . . . to visit the Princess Thurn and Taxis. Every morning a large block of ice is brought to the Emperor with which he washes his face. . . . The British Mission, owing to excessive caution, has engaged two housemaids on its own. Before I can get at [their] waste paper ... I must see whether I can count on these two women...
...last week the neighbors learned differently. Detectives clapped the "clergy" of the Community Mission 'into jail, and with them a lay brother named William J. Hager. The "Archbishop," it developed, was known in ruder circles as "Dutch Willy." Father Appleby had been convicted of rape in 1927. Father Norman was known to the police as Raymond...
...Salem, Ore., Martha Hager sued a bus company for $28,000, declared that one of the company's workers had looked over a crowd of passengers, including herself, and observed: "You all look like a bunch of pigs...
Common Carrier. In Salem, Ore., outraged Martha Hager sued a bus company for $28,000, declared that one of the company's workers had looked over a crowd of waiting passengers, including herself, and observed: "You all look like a bunch of pigs...