Word: elwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This young man was born and raised in Elwood. He attended the Elwood public schools. He worked in your factories and your stores. He started the practice of law in your courts. As I look back upon him, I realize that he had plenty of faults. But he also had three steadfast convictions. He was devoted to the ideal of individual liberty, He hated all special privileges and forms of oppression. And he knew without any doubt that the greatest country on earth was the United States of America...
...hours. Major General William Kepner (the Eighth Air Force fighter commander) flew around in a stratosphere balloon. Spaatz himself commanded the famous endurance flight of the Fokker monoplane Question Mark. In his crew were Lieut. General Ira Eaker, now Allied air commander in the Mediterranean, and Brigadier General Elwood ("Pete") Quesada, Ninth Air Force fighter commander in Britain...
...invocation will be given by Chaplain (Captain) Leland B. Henry, and will be followed by the presentation of diplomas by Chaplain (Colonel) William B. Cleary, Commandant of the School. Chaplain (Captain) Elwood C. Nance will pronounce the benediction...
Miss Harrison, with notable help from mood-wise Cameraman Elwood Bredell, invests this grade-B plot with a lot of style and scare. Some of the dialogue is ham, and toward the end the picture's edginess blunts noticeably. But the bar and bartender, the damp night streets, a late-night elevated platform, and a jam session that looks like an expressionistic death dance, have a good deal of Hitchcock's sinister melo-realistic melancholy...
...family's firstborn, she majored in Greek at Indiana U. (summa cum laude, '08), taught languages at Indiana's Manchester College after postgraduate philolo-gizing in Europe. She translated for the U.S. Government during World War I, took a law degree (1916) and shared the Elwood practice of her father, later worked in Ontario as a skilled bacteriologist. At the time of her death she headed the priorities section of United Aircraft's Bridgeport division...