Word: cuthberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presently, there appeared, from England, not a duke or count but plain Frederick George Cuthbert William Smythe, of the Smokeless Coal Smythes, who was determined to woo & win Alice, partly for her looks and partly for her $20 million which would help stabilize the shaky family business. After announcing: "I'll catch my little filly, I'll tame her, willy nilly, right round the neck I'll noose her and nevermore will loose her," he got a job as Alice's private secretary. For an act or so, Alice dodged his lasso. Then, in the second...
...CUTHBERT WRIGHT...
...Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders of World War I, holder of the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre. He knew that he wanted to be a minister. After graduate study at Edinburgh, he was ordained in the Church of Scotland† in 1924 and was soon assigned to starchy St. Cuthbert's Parish Church in Edinburgh. Uncomfortable in such ultra-respectable Christianity, he switched to Glasgow's famed Govan Old Parish Church, in the heart of one of the worst slums. But the church's Christian witness seemed to him no more effective among the poor than among...
Alone in the Big City. As Larsen E. Whipsnead of the radio, or Cuthbert J. Twillie in My Little Chickadee, he was simply being himself. He was born Claude William Dukenfield, son of a poverty-stricken Philadelphia family. When he was about eleven he crowned his father with a heavy wooden box in retaliation for a whipping and ran away from home. He slept in alleys and on porches, often awoke in agony from cold. He stole milk, crept into saloons to snatch free lunch. He was always using his fists and always coughing (he later discovered that...
...Cuthbert Clegg and his fellow dissenters vainly insisted that the profit motive would be incentive enough for millowners to switch to modern methods. "There is little incentive," they said, "to be found either in monopolistic capitalism or in free enterprise fussily fettered by the state...