Word: offing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Golden, Colo., suicidal Edward Madden climbed a tree, tied a rope to a branch, fastened the other end around his neck, and jumped. The rope broke, Edward Madden staggered away in a daze, died of a fractured skull when his head struck a boulder.
In Washington, D. C., Lloyd S. Booze was indicted on a charge of holding up the liquor store of a man named Seltzer.
In Fort Collins, Colo., Colorado State College empiricists slowly killed a pack of white rats by feeding them a coed's diet.
Mobilized at the beginning of the war, French Novelist Philippe Heriat found himself on duty guarding the Goncourt subway station in Paris. Fortnight ago, the name took on a new meaning for Novelist Heriat. He won the Goncourt Prize (5,000 francs), France's highest annual award for fiction...
A tall, big-jawed, witty bachelor, Philippe Heriat considers himself to have been one of the three worst students in his school. The other two: French Air