Word: tip
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Fall from Fortune. A few days later, on a telephoned tip, two Paris police inspectors spotted a dignified, dapper little father walking his boys (age 4 and 12) in the sunny Bois. They waited till he was sitting pina?" they alone at a asked. cafe. "C'est moi," "Monsieur answered Della-le petit gros, "I'll follow you. But please don't tell my boys what I've done." At police headquarters the inspectors found that their prisoner was a Corsican refugee from the police of Marseille, who wanted him for the murder...
TIME [Dec. 19] reports Andrei Vishinsky giving three porters a $40 tip . . . Was Andrei just keeping up with the wicked, capitalistic "Joneses...
...pondered her features and her technique. The shelf before her had none of the average young actress's array of paints and creams. Carol dived deep into the recesses of an enormous scuffed leather purse, located a stick of drugstore lip rouge and smeared it generously on the tip of her nose. "I think about character a lot," she said gravely. "It's much more important than timing." She wiped the lipstick under her chin and made two bull's-eyes on each cheek. "The more dead serious you are about a character, even a comic character...
...civilization" that young Lucas Bridges resented was a tiny scattering of houses and shanties at the tip of South America, in desolate Tierra del Fuego. Ushuaia's closest contact with the outside world lay 400 miles away in the Falkland Islands, where Author Bridges' father had begun his career as an English missionary. The senior Bridges had sailed westward with his bride, and in 1871 arrived at his mission at Ushuaia harbor, in Beagle Channel. There he set about the business of building a few houses, civilizing the Indians (whom Naturalist Charles Darwin called, says Bridges...