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...spite of the grimy furnace room he inhabits, the scarecrow clothes he has to wear, the scanty food and few friends. Gradually his high idealism is undermined and he begins to see college as a picture of an unjust and meaningless world outside. "Forenoon" McClintock, a rapscallion fellow-roomer in Vridar's boarding house, helps to complete his disillusioning education. "Forenoon," a devil with the women, is always after Vridar to join him in his forays. But Vridar considers himself engaged to easy-going Neloa Doole at home. Besides, when he gets near a girl he begins to shake...
Thundering out of the night, the plane brushed a rhubarb patch, caromed off a tree and a shed, crashed through the wall of Joseph Arisa's frame house. It burst like a flaming meteor into the Arisas' parlor. A moment before, the Arisas, their four children, their roomer, his brother and two guests had been playing cards. Joseph Arisa, his clothing ablaze, leaped through a window. The others scarcely had time to shriek before they were incinerated. With them died the plane's three occupants. (Joseph Arisa soon died in a hospital...
...Detroit, Mrs. Rose Veres was beneficiary of more than 60 insurance policies, banked $68,000 in twelve years. When a roomer fell to his death from her house police investigated, found eleven other roomers had died there mysteriously. Three were Mrs. Veres's husbands. She had given most of them elaborate funerals, had them photographed in their coffins, collected the insurance...
...Orleans, a landlady rented her sunniest room to Edward White, "explorer." Wakened the first night by creaking boards and roving flashlight, she sat up, saw the new roomer, asked what he was doing. Said he: "Exploring...
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