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From a cottage window among the grey ruins of Calais, blond, moody Claude Wissocq, 33, stared out into the fog and the darkness. He shivered, then whispered to his mother: "Dreadful things can happen in the fog. There is terror. And it comes in from the east. You've...
The police took him back to his garden to see the body of Aime Mille, police inspector and one of his callers, whom he had killed. The doctor, to whom his mother had taken him from time to time, had called Claude sane enough. But the doctor had not foreseen...
When he was teaching about Sam Johnson, Professor Chauncey Tinker seemed a good deal like the great Samuel himself. He was a crisp and courtly figure, far from the "man of most dreadful appearance" Boswell wrote about, but he spoke in coffee-house prose, and like Johnson, he knew how...
"A Dreadful One." Bevan wandered up & down the Welsh valleys, talking to the workers. Sometimes as many as 20,000 would come to hear him, singing hymns as they approached. "Nyrin is a king among men," they said in the Welsh valleys. But others whispered: "He is a dreadful one...
Marquand still becomes choleric when he thinks of the stuff he wrote. "It seemed to me the most dreadful thing to end your days putting your energy into a campaign for Lifebuoy Soap-and all those Phi Beta Kappas sitting around trying to get ideas."