Word: keeper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harrassed by late returnees begging pardon, the dorm keeper blasted his reply to the fake note, saying that real McCoy notes would be handwritten in the future...
...went to Moranino's headquarters and asked for news. A few nights later, two Moranino partisans called at the hut, told them Moranino wanted to see them. As they were passing the local cemetery, the partisans pulled out revolvers and shot the women dead. They roused the cemetery keeper and ordered him to bury the bodies. The cemetery keeper testified: "The partisans were pleased because snow was falling and it covered the bloodstains...
Divorced. By Sir Pratapsinghrao, 47, one of the world's richest men (estimated yearly income: $8,000,000), who, as India's Gaekwar ("Keeper of the Cattle") of Baroda (1939-51), ruled a princedom of 8,000 sq. mi. with some 3,000,000 subjects: his second maharani, cigar-smoking Sita Devi, 41; after 13 years of marriage, one child (Prince Sayajirao); in Bombay...
...Nettie. When he learns that his wife is pregnant, Billy gets desperate, tries to steal the money he is too weak to work for, and is accidentally killed.'-He goes to heaven, or anyway to some sort of celestial vestibule in which he meets a benevolent old book keeper who lets him come back to earth for just one day to straighten out his ethical accounts...
...kindly yet none too religious monk, Fernandel attempts to save a group of five travellers from death at the hands of an inn-keeper who finds that ends meet only when he robs and kills his guests. In the process, Fernandel must make some very difficult decisions: whether to eat or give confession to a dying woman and whether to risk his life to save those of the unwitting travellers. In the end, other people make these decisions for him. But this merely enhances the humor...