Word: evelyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew why Evelyn MacLean,† 26, sultry-eyed, black-haired, good-looking, had married John Dick, 40, a Hamilton, Ont. tram driver. The only explanation she gave was that "he was a lovely fellow. He used to call and help me with the dishes. He brought soap chips." Nor did there seem to be much reason why hardworking John Dick had married her. Five days after her marriage (in October 1945) she committed adultery. Shortly after, she and John separated...
Bones in the Cinders. Police learned that Evelyn had borrowed a Packard sedan from a garage proprietor on that day, had returned it later with the front seat covered with blood. In the car, police found John Dick's blue sweater. Out in the back yard of her home, police found bits of human bones mixed with some cinders from the furnace. In her attic, encased in cement in an old suitcase, was the partly mummified body of a baby boy. So the police asked Evelyn some questions...
...Britain he has enlisted such figures as the Duke of Norfolk, Britain's ranking Roman Catholic layman, the young, lovely, devoutly Catholic Marchioness of Lothian; Novelist Evelyn Waugh; Lord Lovat of Commando fame; and many others. From the U.S., Cardinal Spellman sent Elwes an enthusiastic letter and his personal check for $500. In London last fortnight, Elwes saw former Belgian Ambassador Hugh Gibson, who may head the U.S. drive for funds...
Minister of Food Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey was also squirming unhappily over the bitter bread-rationing controversy. Proudly he had announced that the first three weeks of rationing achieved a 33% saving of flour. Cried the Tory press and the National Association of Master Bakers: misrepresentation. They pointed out that holidays always made August a low flour consumption month and that housewives had simply used up back stocks. While the people concluded that the truth lay midway between Strachey's optimistic figure and the bakers' gloomy 10% estimate, they remained unconvinced that bread rationing had ever been...
...Contempt & Loathing." In Jerusalem, where the final death toll in the terrorist-wrecked King David Hotel had reached 91, barbed-wire barricades bristled in the streets. Lieut. General Sir Evelyn Barker had issued instructions to British troops to boycott Jewish homes and stores: "Without the support, actual or passive, of the Jewish public, the terrorist gangs . . . would soon be unearthed, and in this measure the Jews in the country are accomplices and bear a share of the guilt. I am determined that they shall. . . be made aware of the contempt and loathing with which we regard their conduct. . . . The troops...