Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mason Garfield, head resident, immediately rang the fire bell, summoning all 96 Hall-members downstairs. White she and other hall functionaries lined the girls up to be searched, their rooms were also thoroughly combed for the missing money...
...about 3 a.m. her phone at the Commander Hotel allegedly rang and a "voice that sounded like some wild maniac" told her where and when to leave the money. Miss Luce claimed she was too sleepy to remember this data, but that she immediately told the night clerk about...
Friends and neighbors began piling in and the phone rang without stopping. The Cohens' four daughters, two of whom are married, were jubilant. Benjamin Cohen, a laundry manager, and his wife sat in stunned silence for a while, scarcely able to believe their good luck on that fine evening last June...
...quays of the sluggish Seine were lined last week with 300 entrants in Paris' annual fishing contest. Three times during the afternoon cheers rang out from the thousands who jammed nearby streets and bridges-fish had actually been caught. After rods & reels had been put away, President Auguste Minville of the Union des Pĕcheurs de Paris cheerfully admitted that "because the Seine is the drainage ditch of the world, all fish taken from it are blind, hunchbacked and constipated," in addition to being rather small. Total weight of the afternoon's catch (three minnows): 25 grams...
Solemn Promise. Then the blow fell. The confetti had scarcely been swept up when a solemn statement rang out from the chancery office of the Catholic archdiocese of New York. "Newspapers, in describing the marriage . . .," the statement said, "have mentioned a second marriage ceremony . . . Both parties solemnly promised in writing that there would be only the Catholic ceremony . . . Therefore, the Catholic party automatically incurred excommunication...