Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Quarry. At 10:15 every morning, carrying a rolled-up umbrella, wearing rubbers if there is a hint of rain, punctual Alger Hiss, with his wife, climbs the long front steps of Manhattan's U.S. Court House. Crowded in an elevator with half a dozen reporters, lawyers, jurors...
The Inexplicable. It was the 24th day of the second trial. Murphy rumbled casually: "Would it embarrass you if I asked you about some of the suicides in your family?" Said Hiss softly: "No." There had been two, his father and his sister? Hiss said: "That is correct."
Mrs. Abbie Borroto was caught in a slow, wrenching, inexorable process; she was dying of cancer. She was a woman of 59, the mother of two daughters, a member of the" Manchester (N.H.) Grace Episcopal Church. As she lay in the neat, white bed in Hillsboro County Hospital, wasted from...
But a jury would have no easy decision; the law does not admit that there could be mercy or manipulation in death.
One of his oddest devotions to the good time occurred during one of Freddie's lavish Prohibition-era parties. It was a Christmas dinner at Boston's staid Locke-Ober's. The company was high, the food and wines were perfect. Outside the snow fell. But there...