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Nine months later Miss Edith Louisa Cavell was shot by the Germans because she admitted using her Red Cross prerogatives to shelter and further the escape of some 200 Allied soldiers, prisoners of the Germans. The revelation prompted a search for more hidden Allied soldiers. One day a German captain came to search the house of Mme. Belmont-Gobert...
...search through various records of almost forgotten events disclose the fact that in the period of financial depression following the Revolution lotteries were a fairly common means of obtaining large amounts of money...
...border custom officers boarded the train; were shocked to find 20 quarts of whiskey concealed in the athletes' luggage. The contraband liquor was seized; fines of five dollars per bottle imposed; reprimands administered. Just as the culprits were about to be sent on their way, further search of the car revealed 65 additional bottles hidden in a linen closet. The car was detached from the train; the entire team detained in Richford...
...Author, long a professor of philosophy in a Roman high school, turned to drama late in life after writing many novels and short stories. "Pirandellian" is now Italy's equivalent for "Shavian." He came to wide fame only in 1921, with his play Six Characters in Search of an Author. Critics who deny that Professor Pirandello is a philosopher at least agree that his genius for sardonic humor is considerable. If he only toys with mankind's moral and spiritual absurdities, and makes the stage a debating platform for fruitless metaphysics, he at least does it with terse...
...when he staggers back with dishevelled half and ink stained fingers after the last sheet of copy has dropped into the insatiable basket. During the interviewing period, rumor has it, he spends his time dashing from University Hall, to Soldiers Field, to the H. A. A. in a frantic search for news; assailing famous statesmen in their bedrooms at the Somerset, and actors in their dressing rooms at the Opera House in quest of interviews; writing fervent letters to every acquaintance he and his parents boast; beseaching special articles on anything from birth control to the British Empire. So busy...