Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Almost unnoticed by the numbed consumer, meat prices crawled to an alltime high. In New York City last week the average for porterhouse steak was $1.03 a pound, for round steak $1.00. ¶ In Michigan City, Ind., Mrs. Margaret Agnew, 33, had her dentist arrested for assault and battery. The dentist, she said, had pulled a dozen of her teeth without permission, gave her no anesthetic, took a drink of whiskey after each extraction. ¶Cincinnati Common Pleas Judge Stanley Struble, 82, took a long look at a series of magazine pictures showing a young woman stripping down...
...Class of 1941: Edward Agnew Callanan Jr., John Wilbur Keller...
...Captain William Gladstone Agnew, in command of the British squadron, met more than he had bargained for. The original convoy was just being joined by two more merchantmen, and two heavy Italian cruisers, twice the size of his own, were on hand. He did not hesitate...
Winston Churchill cabled Captain Agnew congratulations. King George VI named him a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath for his deed, unprecedented in World War II: finding and destroying an entire convoy...
...Agnew was not at his room when the conflagration started, and it remained for a passerby to give the alarm. The fire department arrived on the scene only after having answered a false alarm from near Dudley House...