Word: went
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bustled, snapping his fingers in summons, beckoning, bowing, whispering, glaring through his monocle. Once he emerged from conference with the air of a man whose adventurous patience is exhausted. Ostentatiously he tore up a typewritten sheet, announced for all to hear: "I'm all washed up." Back he went, however, to the conference room, like the leader of a forlorn hope. At last, after two days, peace seemed to be assured. Justice Dineen adjourned court and his decision until next...
...everything in sight, prepared to make meticulous reports to the German Embassy in Washington, moved through the six rooms foot by foot. Books and letters were everywhere-most in German, many on nudism. There were scores of photographs of naked men, many middleaged. Neighbors had noted that no women went to see black-haired, squat Dr. Engelberg; that his servants were men, his numerous visitors were...
...Doell walked round to the back of the house, hastily turned his back on a Jewish cemetery which faces the rear door, and rapped again. The door key was on the outside, the door unlocked. Mr. Doell went...
...house was quiet. Mr. Doell went through the carefully furnished rooms on the lower floor. Without pausing to admire the objets d'art from the Orient and the Near East, Mr. Doell mounted the stairs. Through the open door of a bedroom he noted a rumpled bed, a blue bathrobe flung carelessly over it, on the floor a pair of men's large bedroom slippers. He peeked into a study packed with books, filing cabinets, a globe. On the floor an Assyrian water pipe, two-thirds-filled, caught...
...Doell went to the back of the house, entered the master bedroom. On a three-quarter-size bed, on top of the covers, lay the man he had come to see: Dr. Walter Engelberg, 42, secretary of the Consulate. Dr. Engelberg was dressed in an old-fashioned white nightgown, his hands folded peacefully across his chest, the fingers extended. His head had been smashed by three blows. Obliterated were two sabre scars, marks of duels. He had been dead 24 hours...