Word: twice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permitted to found a French pawnshop. Slightly confused by his many aliases and escapes, French police think he is the Chevalier d'Industrie (confidence man) who so recently as 1926 cashed a forged check for more than a million francs. They think he is the "Handsome Alexandre" who twice escaped from agents of the Sûreté Générale who were taking him by train to Paris. In the first instance the agents went to sleep, drugged. In the second their prisoner slipped off his handcuffs by means best known to himself and ran. Only...
King Carol, told by telephone of the tragedy, had Premier Duca's body brought to the royal palace and placed in state in one of the drawing rooms. Twice during the night His Majesty tiptoed into the room to look at his dead Prime Minister, still in his bloodstained traveling clothes...
Last year Glenn Cunningham ran practically every indoor or outdoor race he could find in the U. S. and Europe. He was beaten only twice, never in the mile, his best distance. On tour he carried his school books with him, studied hard enough to make good grades. He is 24, a senior, plans entering medical school or teaching physical education...
...Utica. N. Y. Anna Mullen was shot twice through the brain, lived...
...again, Leo found himself nearly destitute, but Fenianism had given him an aim in life. He married one of his old wenches, lived in poverty but went on plotting his revenge against the police. Twice more he went to jail, but he lived to be an old man who liked to think himself a desperate character. At the end the furnace of the Dublin Easter rebellion swallowed...