Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hereby give my entire estate," ran the will of Edgar H. Donne, 70, who lived & died in a one-room shack on a barren Michigan farm, "to Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, screen actress, whose stage name is Greta Garbo, to her and no other." Neighbors recalled that Donne had once bought himself some new clothes and set out for Hollywood; after he got back he never talked about it. He once wrote Garbo a letter; it came back stamped "Refused." The local probate judge estimated that lonely Hermit Donne was worth about $20,000. Postscript to the will: "If Greta Garbo...
...turned over to the armed services or the OSS. About 150 of these went into actual production; some 600 more are still in the testing stage. Some of the most successful: ¶The Army's portable mine detector, invented by a Miami electrician to help a neighbor find buried pirate gold. ¶A tank-driven mine detonator. ¶ A long-lasting walkie-talkie battery for use in the tropics...
Frau Frieda Budde came to Berlin a year ago, went to live in a tenement at 33 Kolbergerstrasse. She never talked much to her neighbors. Her one friend was Old Man Faseler, who lived in the room next to hers. He spent most of his time in bed, fully clothed, with a cap on his head. Last week, he mumblingly related the climax of his neighbor's story: "She came home that evening frozen stiff. 'Frau Budde,' I said to her. 'You better warm your hands in hot water.' When...
...instructor had already begun lecturing when Vag got to Isotopic Topography 1b. "What's happened?" Vag whispered to the man sitting next to him. "Here are ten formulas to memorize by Monday," his neighbor answered, offering his notebook. "Also, twelve problems that have to be answered and handed in, first two-hundred pages of Filehick's 'Isotopes in Action,' and lesson twelve in the work-book a bitch of a course...
...most common ways to cheat: 1) the "timehonored practice [of] extending the Good Neighbor policy to the next guy's paper," 2) smuggling notes into class written on saddle shoes ("indispensable . . . they last forever"), on cuffs (now that white shirts are back), on fingernails, or in the palm of the hand...