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...investigate a call for help in a bleak and ancient Brooklyn house. He arrived just as a woman ran out. Her half-crazed husband, with a pistol, had broken through a bedroom window, bent on killing her. The house was pitch-dark. O'Dwyer got a kerosene lamp, pushed it into the room, saw that his quarry had gotten into bed. He dived, yanked back the blankets, grabbed the man's gun hand. It was like "holding the leg of a steer." The man wrestled desperately to bring his weapon to bear. O'Dwyer warned him, then...
...Manhattan's Borough President Hugo Rogers decided that New York lamp posts were cluttered with too many signs. He drew up plans for a more beautiful lamp post on which signs too cluttered to read would be replaced by simple initials which almost nobody would understand (samples: NTB for No Trucks or Busses, MT for Merging Traffic, ERD for East River Drive and QMT for Queens Midtown Tunnel...
...Ends of the Earth" could not be a more appropriate title. Inspector Dick Powell starts off in hot pursuit of a narcotics ring, gets shot at and clubbed on the head at every turn, and winds up victorious a week later with a feather in his hat and a lamp on his noggin, having completely encircled the globe. In Shanghai, Powell crosses paths with Signe Hasso, in company with a young Chinese girl who later turns out to be older than she looks and ringleader of the entire dope chain. After a quick hop to Egypt and a climb...
...dead man, who was draped in white khadi (homespun cotton) and sprinkled with rose petals. The crush became so great that the body was finally put on a tilted slab on an outside balcony, and bathed in floodlights so that all might see. At the head burned five lamp wicks representing the five elements-air, light, water, earth and fire...
...fold. Its spokesman is a 54-year-old Parisian named Leon Gingembre, whose name matches his personality (gingembre means ginger). Tall, thin, grey, dynamic, Gingembre, a small manufacturer of pins & needles, has bushy eyebrows and the eyes of a zealot, switches his wide smile on & off like a lamp...