Word: petitiveness
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Anyhow, long, long ago, in the sleepy hamlet where he was born, Vag learned to love trains. The whole atmosphere of the town was railroadish. It was a division point on a large system, and the train-smell and train-noise filled the air constantly. Petit Vag used to watch the heavy freights groan out of the yards, shout defiance to nature and the elements, and attack the mountain grades--and many times his heart rode the cowcatcher of a mighty 16-driver Mallet engine, or nestled in the cupola of a caboose. Every night...
...Alan W. Petit -- Miss Charlotte Halway, Radcliffe...
Appeals for funds plaster their front pages. Jacques Doriot's La Liberté urgently needs 500,000 francs. Fascist Col. François de La Roque's Petit Journal, panhandling for millions, has founded a "Club of Friends of the Petit Journal" who give up cigarets or lipstick to contribute 10 francs a month. The Royalist Action Francaise, perennially broke, is still begging another 1,000,000 francs-starting a new campaign on the heels of an old one. Young L'Epoque must have 6,000,000 francs or it will close...
Despite ransom messages and mysterious telephone calls, despite the appearance of several of Jean De Koven's traveler's checks, obviously forged, the French police stubbornly refused to believe that a kidnapping could occur in present-day France. Petit Parisien headlined its story: "American Dancer Runs Away and Tries to Extort Money from Aunt." French police were not entirely remiss, however. The mysterious Bobby was suspected of being an habitue of the Pavilion Bleu at St. Cloud. Night & day detectives watched the Pavilion Bleu, abandoned their vigil only when wreckers arrived and tore it down...
...Flickinger, William D. McSweeney, Dwight D. Taylor, Jr., John P. Schwede, Peter G. Zouck, Ray C. Holt, Horace J. Bresler, Robert L. Wright, James I. Rothschild, Clifton E. Helman, Ralph Hornblower, Jr., W. Arthur Betz, William E. McDonald, Alan W. Petit, and Einor C. Palm...