Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ritz for Jeweler Williams, ended with the shrewd selection of some ?6,800 worth of gems at Williams' place of business. Paying for the lot by check. Major Woodfall pocketed a particularly appealing brooch (worth ?585) with the words that Miss Hackman wished to wear it over the weekend. He strode out of the jewelry store and disappeared. By the following day the check had bounced, and Miss Hackman, forlorn and bereft, was wondering who was to pay her hotel bill...
Dangerous Freedom. Last week, after running down the elusive gallant at a fashionable Irish country house, where he was staying as a weekend guest with another "wife." the weary police turned Major Michael Woodfall over once more for trial at London's Old Bailey. He was, their records plainly showed, neither a major nor a Woodfall but an operator better known to the Yard as Champagne Charlie. In a lifetime of high living, assuming identities that ranged from that of "Sir Patrick Murphy, ex-governor of the Bahamas" to that of "Roland Jones, heir to a fortune," 35-year...
...Every weekend, rain or shine, whenever the ground is not frozen. Commercial Artist Bertram Wymer, 65, his wife Lea and their son John tramp across a deserted gravel pit at Swanscombe on the down-Thames outskirts of London. They walk with their heads down, eying every pebble. At the far end of the pit they enter a wire-fenced enclosure and start digging cautiously with garden trowels. They have been digging diligently ever since the end of the war, and recently they made the first finds of a peculiar treasure they have long sought...
...persistent Wymers are not yet satisfied. This weekend, if the gravel is not frozen, they will be back in Barnfield Pit. In time, they hope to find more human bones, and perhaps the burned bones of animals or other clues to the Swans combe way of life. "We've got premonitions," says Bertram. "Besides, I like to get to the bottom of things, you know...
Snow removal problems brought differing reactions from city officials this weekend...