Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land. When a new game of fantan or mah-jongg is about to begin, gamblers from the Chinese side quickly pad over the bridge without having to pass the French check point. Every afternoon at 3 o'clock Tonghing's postman comes across to collect the mail. China's postal service there is so bad that many Tonghingers, and even people as far away as Canton, have their mail addressed to them care of Moncay...
Last September René was arrested on charges of robbing a mail truck, holding up a jewelry store and various other crimes. "I'll be seeing you at Christmas time," he told his wife confidently as they carted him off to the Sante Prison. Soon afterward he reported sick...
...burgomaster of Finsterwolde. When the Reds fired the uncooperative tax collector and social security chief, Tuin wrote The Hague and got the discharged employees reinstated. Later the Communists voted illegal benefits to striking public-work employees. Tuin wrote another letter to The Hague, got the project vetoed by return mail. A Red alderman snarled: "We will settle with people of your sort...
...choice of Swaffield, made months in advance, was no accident. After each game, the individual officials and the coaches of the rival teams mail brief reports to the Eastern Association office, rating the officiating as satisfactory or not-and, if not, why not. Too many blunders can bounce the blunderer back to the minors or right off the roster of officials...
Born in Dallas, the son of a well-to-do real-estate man, Rosenfield broke into the arts doing second-string reviews for the late Burns Mantle on the old New York Evening Mail, later worked as a press-agent (he once drove a covered wagon down Broadway to exploit a movie...