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Spears arrived soon afterward, hid the car with Florida license plates in a nearby wash, and hung close to the cottage. Meanwhile Spears's wife, at home in Dallas, filed the claim for her husband's $100,000 policy with Fidelity & Casualty Co. in New York...
...Then a big man with a black beard came. He looked like a professor and was obviously the wrong type for a goldfish. When he saw the one in the tank, his eyebrows waggled excitedly, and he bet more than half the board-and won. In terror the goldfish hid in the toy castle at the bottom of the tank, and no matter how hard the attendant rapped on the castle with his net, the fish would not come...
...couple of Chicago Tribune book reviews on his typewriter. Mrs. Engle ironed incessantly (so that she could strike while it was hot), Mary lectured on insects and entertained with some Bach piano selections ("They didn't like it, so they made me stop"), and Sara foresightedly hid some scissors in a bird cage. Finally the upstaged crooks trussed up all four in plastic clothesline and departed in Poet Engle's clothing and his station wagon. The Engles quickly freed themselves, and both fugitives were rounded up next day. Complained their involuntary host: "They were completely devoid...
Mademoiselle crammed her voluminous journals with vivid vignettes. One episode she understandably failed to record concerned Count de Lauzun who hid under the bed of Mme. de Montespan, mistress to Louis XIV, and later mimicked her conversation back to her word for word. Mademoiselle did describe the bloodiest battle of the Fronde, when she saw the Duke de la Rochefoucauld staggering toward her, "having received a musket-ball through his eyes and nose, so that his eyes seemed to be falling out, and he kept blowing the blood away as though he feared one of his eyes might fall into...
...flourishing growth of a yeastlike fungus, Candida (or Monilia) albicans, occasional cause of human infections, but usually in the mouth or the vagina. In a normal gut, Candida may occur without causing fermentation. But in Ohishi's repaired bowel there was a little pocket where the Candida hid, multiplied, and busily fermented carbohydrates to form alcohol...