Word: heapings
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...Malahide poked into an old croquet box, found more. In 1931, a third cache was uncovered in Scotland's Fettercairn House, squirreled away in storerooms and a nursery cupboard. In 1937, a fourth find was made at Malahide, and two years later another, this time in a heap of papers stored over an unused stable. Last week, to slightly winded Boswell scholars around the world, came word of Find...
...dust. Vag lifted it and opened it carefully to "Why I am a Marxist" again. He started reading, and paused for a minute to look over his shoulder. Then he quickly crouched over the box, dug into the pile with his free hand, and slipped the book into the heap...
...tenth lap was quiet enough (the French won it), but as the cyclists began the eleventh-lap climb into the Pyrenees, name calling turned to violence. Bartali, fighting for the lead, was knocked from his bike by a boisterous Frenchman, crashed into a heap with three other cyclists. French police restored order temporarily as Bartali remounted, but his teammates behind were pelted with stones and tomatoes when they pumped to the scene. Farther on, Bartali was nearly edged over a precipice by a speeding car. He won the lap, but he had had enough. He withdrew from the race...
...last week in raucous, dusty Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, lawyers and witnesses huddled for 45 minutes in a judge's office over a heap of official papers. In Rome, where night was falling, Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini sat side by side in church, their minds on the doings in Mexico. At Juarez, at last, Attorneys Javier Alvarez and Arturo Gomez-Trevino rose from the huddle, stood before Judge Raul Orozco. "Do you," the judge asked Alvarez, "as the representative of Roberto Rossellini, know if it is his will to take Ingrid Bergman...
...came to grief while visiting the International Stamp Exhibition at London's Grosvenor House with her husband and longtime (23 years) royal lover, former King Carol of Rumania. The princess caught her heel at the top of a short flight of stairs, tumbled, landed in a mink-clad heap twelve steps below. Damage: a badly bruised right...