Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York County's sleuthing young District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey last week acted on a tip from no less a master of sleuthing than Author E. (for Edward) Phillips Oppenheim. Sunning his shrewd old head in Monte Carlo, Author Oppenheim had dispatched a cable to District Attorney Dewey. Result was the apprehension of a gentleman who in life is as suave and distinguished as any of Oppenheim's international intriguers...
...accidentally shot himself in the chest. The bullet tore through his body but so tough was Earl Durand that he was out hunting again in a fortnight. He was never a bad boy, except once when he fired a shot over the postman's head to scare...
...native rulers. One rupee in every five of Kashmir's revenue goes to its maharaja (compared with approximately one pound in 1,600 of British revenue to King George VI). And the taxpayer gets almost nothing for his money. In one state which charges taxes of $5.50 per head, 10? per head is spent on education, 8? on public health. Much of the rest goes to keep the maharaja well supplied with pearls, virgins, elephants and other luxuries. If taxation fails, there are different ways of raising money-one prince is said to have sold his 300 stepmothers...
...Night," Dali showed in another window a mannequin lying on a bed of glowing coals under a stuffed trophy, which the artist described as "the decapitated head and the savage hoofs of a great somnambulist buffalo extenuated by a thousand years of sleep." Working all one night with Bonwit's regular window crew, Surrealissimo Dali finished in time for the store's opening at 9:30 a. m. Then he retired to his hotel...
...roundish, solid man in immaculate dark clothes, with fine tight features and bright brown eyes, George Grosz has more to say of his precise technical discipline than of his feelings. But last week he confessed to a fascination with horror tales and movies, tapped his round head solemnly as he declared: "Every survivor is a haunted house...