Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sleep No More. In Philadelphia, Francis V. Me Michael explained to Magistrate John F. Daly why he smashed a hardware store window and stole six alarm clocks: he "had difficulty getting up in the morning."
The Breaking Point. In London, Edward Finney called the Croydon police station to announce: "I just threw four bricks through the windows of the Inland Revenue Office. I am fed up with paying income tax."
He wrote love letters to her (mostly in French) in his own round hand-and 17 of them mysteriously disappeared. History's assumption: they were stolen and smuggled out of England by Henry's political enemies. In any event, they soon turned up at the Vatican, to be...
Hearn had married a Negro woman. In 1877 he pulled up stakes, deserted his wife and headed for New Orleans, where he went to work for the Item, later for the Times-Democrat.
Quivering Nostrils. Lafcadio Hearn was a sight to see, and he knew it. One eye was blind and covered with a milky film; the other was "myopic and protruding, so that it looked like the single eye of an octopus." A short (5 ft. 3), slight man with a scraggly...