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...Zola was sent to school in Paris. He hid his provincial manners with an abrasive gruffness, but he could scarcely hide his provincial ignorance. In his final exam he declared that Charlemagne died in the 16th century, was forthwith flunked for being off by some 700 years. Apparently unconcerned, he plunged into a Bohemian life, took a tart for a mistress, and during one starved winter dressed in blankets because he had pawned even his last pair of pants to keep her. He wrote a trilogy of epic poems, notably bad and terribly long. His family, through a friend...
...busts of angelic children. But he soon tired of carving and went back to pen & ink drawings with single-minded attention. Outside art, his main pleasures are horseback riding and, latterly, whippeting around the Tuscan hills in a Fiat. Once during the war, Carrara was shelled and his family hid out for two months in a hillside cave. Paolo spent his time profitably, carving pictures on the walls, caveman style...
...beat the heat," said Thomas H. Stearns '53 yesterday. He hid a yellow map in his carburetor...
Resistance Movement. In Pittsburgh, after charging in his divorce suit that his wife Celia 1) put broken glass in his bed, 2) hid his car keys and let the air out of his tires, 3) beat him with her shoes. 4) threatened to poison him, 5) was more trying, all in all, than the Iwo Jima campaign had been, Marine Veteran George Bushmire summed it all up: "She didn't cooperate in making our marriage work...
...night he slipped out of the jail and stole $485 worth of clothing and luggage from Burgin Bros, store; he hid the loot in the shrubbery outside the jail, sauntered back inside and locked himself up. On another expedition he stole $73 from Raycraft's Drugstore. His ambition growing, he lifted the courthouse keys from the sheriff's pocket, made a nocturnal visit to the vault containing the records of his burglary case. Though he failed to open it, he eased the sting of defeat by swiping $23 from the sheriff's desk...