Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came back that night. She was all right but later in the Anderson, when They started coming over again she fell completely apart. She recovered enough in the morning to replace lost rations and then go to the Town Hall to get her glasses replaced. But two hours later the local warden came to the factory looking for me to say Kit's in a house up the road all collapsed again. Sort of delayed shock, I suppose you might call it. So I packed Andrew up and took them both down to Puddleston...
...lives down the river a way. So did several hundred less glamorous citizens-Italian and Polish truck gardeners behind the Hudson Highlands, and rock-ribbed Republicans who peacefully dairy-farm and grow cauliflower in the blue Catskill hills. Each did something about it in his own way: Playwright Anderson used his $180 from the New Yorker as a campaign contribution to beat Fish; Helen Hayes gave the voters a touch of histrionics-on-the-hustings; the hillside folk simply went to the polls. But all of their ballots and all their spirited poetry, and all the opposition of such "outsiders...
...wrote Playwright Maxwell Anderson last May, in a bitter poetic outburst for which the New Yorker paid him $180. What had moved Maxwell Anderson to sad song was a piece of gerrymandering. By redistricting, Anderson's South Mountain Road home in the Hudson River valley had suddenly become a part of Congressman Ham Fish's constituency...
Third-Act Miracle. Playwright Anderson & Co. believe they can still beat Ham Fish in the finals, next November, but their plans are as confusing as the unravelings of a fifth-rate play. Candidate Bennet, who lost on the Republican ticket last week, will run in November on a party ticket of his own-the Good Government Party, with the endorsements of the Democrats and the American Labor Party. (If elected, he has vowed to serve as a Republican.) To accomplish this, Lawyer Bennet must pull a better third-act miracle than any Playwright Anderson ever carried off on the stage...
Bumped Heads. By night, the London householder was governed by the menace. Thousands went to the deep public shelters. In thousands of backyards the Anderson shelter, neglected since the bad days of the blitz, had been patched up, its water-soaked earthen floor resurfaced...