Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brunette Katherine Moog, who runs a nursing home for convalescents in Manhattan, identified herself as a friend and traveling companion of slick Dr. Ignatz Griebl, supposedly a key member of the gang. Beauteous Miss Moog related that she ran into Dr. Griebl on a Germany-bound ship in 1937. She proceeded with him to Berlin and there was introduced to Lieutenant Commanders Udo von Bonin and Hermann Menzel of the German War Ministry...
...prosecutor tried to get her back to the subject of spying. "Ah," said Miss Moog, "I will not forget the flowers, the beautiful flowers at the roof garden. And those wonderful gentlemen. One gentleman, I remember, he said, 'I have not been in that wonderful America for eleven years. I love America,' he said. 'President Roosevelt is the greatest navy man in the world.' " Miss Moog ignored interruptions of the prosecutor, sighed on: "It made me very happy when those wonderful gentlemen said they liked President Roosevelt...
...official gentlemen suggested that a lady of Miss Moog's attraction might well open "a villa in Washington" with German money. There she would explain Naziism to Congressmen, military and naval officers, newspapermen. Although she and Dr. Griebl did nothing and heard nothing more about it, they continued to visit Berlin night spots and absorb champagne at the German Government's expense. Miss Moog's prolonged account of this so vexed long-legged Judge Knox that he finally slapped the bench, barked: "Stop that...
...Continued use of laxatives, says Dr. Aaron, is actually a primary cause of constipation. "A few days are required for the colon to refill with waste matter after a complete evacuation by a laxative or cathartic. Many persons become panicky when they miss a day and are persuaded to take more laxatives so that they can have another movement, and then continue to take them daily. . . . The continued use of drugs so diminishes the sensitiveness of the bowel that stronger and stronger stimulation is required to produce activity of the bowel...
...Grandmother Griswold. Author Damon was brought up by her grandmother in a small Connecticut town according to the gospel of Thoreau. Plain living in the vegetarian Griswold household never quite achieved Thoreau's budget of 27? a week. But to little Bertha it seemed a narrow miss...