Word: home
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large garage behind his comfortable 32-room Italian Renaissance home, he maintains the offices of the Harold Lloyd Corp. There President Lloyd and 15 employees take care of scattered real-estate holdings and handle an occasional movie. The last thing he acted in was Preston Sturges' The Sin of Harold Diddlebock. Howard Hughes, who bought it, is still cutting...
...night of Nov. 7, testified County Circuit Judge William B. Ardery, a young politician had come to his home in search of advice. The visitor said that he and two other young fellows had forged a batch of ballots and stuffed them into ballot boxes before the polls opened. The bogus ballots had been discovered (253 marked for President Truman and Democratic Senator Virgil Chapman, one for Chapman's Republican opponent). The judge's caller was worried...
...brought my children home with me to the peace and quiet and friendliness of Enfield [Conn.], but already we have received postcards, letters and telegrams from strangers who dare not sign their names, wishing us evil...
...Bari, a struggling blacksmith, Angelo Pantoso, fretted: "I believe in God. God protected me at war, but when I came back home, only the Communist Party explained the cause of my poverty. Now there is a storm in my mind...
...Some Human Substance." Near an old factory in Crawley, detectives soon found some interesting evidence: a piece of red plastic like that on a handbag which the missing widow carried, a ten-gallon carboy, one of several used to store sulphuric acid, and ashlike specimens of what a Home Office pathologist called "the residue of some human substance." Haigh was promptly taken into custody...