Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In 1941, shortly after his mother's death, José gave his fortune to charity and went off to Peru to enter the Franciscan order. Six years later, after he was ordained a priest in Lima's San Francisco Monastery, police were called out to control the admirers...
the Times-Herald, many another U.S. newspaper was also in print with even scarier stories, but with no more attention to a reporter's basic tenet of checking on the reliability of sources. Many papers, notably the Hopkins-hating Hearst press, bayed off in such excitement last week that...
"Then we dash off some little twirp of a squib that we're almost ashamed to print and we please or antagonize our clientele no end. You never know."
To prove that its shocking picture of the electrocution of Gunman James Morelli three weeks ago was no fake, the Chicago Herald-American last week uncorked a full page of photos explaining how the trick was done. As pressroom gossips had suspected, Herald-American Photographer Joe Migon had pulled back...
Pompey, once stopped to help a neighbor rake the leaves off his lawn.