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Smothering Grease. Late one afternoon four convicts began sawing through the one-inch bars of their solitary cells. They used smuggled hacksaw blades, smothering the noise with grease stolen from the kitchen. When the bars were held in place only by narrow slivers of steel, the desperadoes hid their blades and waited...
...Mette and the five children took refuge with Mette's family in Copenhagen. His first taste of poverty and humiliation brought out the worst in him: he once hid behind the women's bathing place at the beach and surprised a pastor's wife in the nude; another time he strolled into the drawing room wearing only a shirt. A year later, Gauguin took off for Paris with one child, leaving his wife and the other children behind. "When my sabots echo on the granite," he said, "I hear the sound, dull and strong, that...
While washing his hands and singing a gay Neapolitan air, he stopped and remarked casually: "My father cut his throat," then went back to singing. Byron was word-perfect in his monster role before he was out of his teens. Henceforth, the clubfoot and the sensitive heart hid themselves in the disguise of a cold, cloven-hoofed devil. On his brow, at a moment's notice, would appear "that singular scowl" which caused one acquaintance to exclaim that he "had never seen a man with such a Cain-like mark on the forehead." A Pair of Stays. A Miss...
...Tichnor, Ark., who was injured when he and his commanding officer stepped off a cliff in total darkness deep in enemy territory. Collier refused to go back with the rest of the unit, but stuck it out with his commanding officer. They crawled back up the cliff, hid, were ambushed and separated. Collier was wounded, ran out of ammunition, and routed four of the enemy with his bayonet before being rescued. He died at a battalion aid station...
French Philosopher Denis Diderot had the intellectual brilliance that sparkled in an 18th century drawing room, but he sometimes found less conventional ways to display his native gifts. When a lady painter who was doing his portrait objected that his clothes hid his neck, the eminent thinker silently retired behind a curtain and reappeared a moment later "as naked as a worm...