Word: porches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shepherded by two officious French detectives, a crew of workmen invaded an ugly, yellow plaster suburban villa not far from Napoleon's Chateau at Malmaison last week and started digging under the front porch. Within 18 inches they uncovered first a white handbag, then the body of a young girl, fully dressed, doubled up like a jackknife. She had been strangled. With their chests out, officers of the prefecture of police presently announced that they had solved the mystery of the disappearance of U. S. Dancer Jean De Koven, had arrested the most heinous mass murderer since France...
This week's first nighters entered through the columned porch of the old hotel, under the same overhanging iron-grilled balcony, to the transformed lobby. Off the horseshoe of boxes on the second level was a bar decorated with mural reproductions of Hogarth's "Rake's Progress." Rakes who sought anything stronger than soda pop were disappointed, for South Carolina does not permit the sale of alcoholic drinks in theatres...
...cottage in Mineral Springs, Ark., 66-year-old Widow Annie Kelly was arrested, charged with shooting 68-year-old Alderman J. R. Page, of Nashville, Ark., on her porch after a quarrel. To Mineral Springs to "render any assistance needed" by Widow Kelly, once the wife of a country doctor named J. M. Rivers, Georgia's Governor Eurith Dickinson Rivers, her son, sent his younger brother, J. S. Rivers...
...camp meetings, Chain gangs, political rallies; of a huge-columned mansion porch, with a poor-white woman and her child sitting on one of the broad stone steps. "I don't know what ever happened to the family that built this house before the War. A lot of families live here now. My husband and me moved in and get two rooms for five dollars a month...
...groundwork for his drive, Editor Mabley, a 22-year-old Beta Theta Pi, assigned reporters to cover eight Champaign vice resorts. They interviewed inmates, photographed a brothel façade with the madame in the doorway, a college student "planted" on the porch. Fortnight ago the Illini opened its pack of revelations, drew forth these...