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Word: kvisthus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When two armed bandits walk one evening into the city post office, Kvisthus, one of the clerks left on duty, is killed. Clerk Lydersen. in a panic, throws himself on one of the bandits, is knocked out. Clerk Berger, who has had time to think, when faced with two revolvers thinks some more, hands over his cash box finally. The bandits escape, and Clerk Berger's troubles begin. The police commissioner, the newspaper, everybody accuse him of cowardice. Berger knows that he was no coward, that he had done the only sensible thing, but even his wife grows cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Resurrected Alive | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

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