Word: fetched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dilling looked coldly at her codefendant, peppery Mrs. Lois de Lafayette ("T.N.T.") Washburn, who favored delighted photographers with a stiff-armed Nazi salute. Florid, convivial Edward James Smythe, onetime speaker at Bund and Ku Klux Klan rallies, held up proceedings for two days while FBI agents were sent to fetch him, spluttering indignantly, from a fishing trip near the Canadian border. There were also George Deatherage, founder of the Knights of the White Camellia; Howard Victor Broenstrupp, alias the Duke of St. Saba, alias Count Cherep-Spiridovich, etc. Nine of the defendants were already interned or in jail. They arrived...
...when he retired from McGill University's faculty, Stephen Leacock tentatively thought of returning to his native England, then decided to stay in Canada. Said he: "Fetch me my carpet slippers ... I'll rock it out to sleep right here." Last week, at 74, he died in a Toronto hospital, after an operation for throat cancer. Mourning was not confined to McGill, nor to Canada...
...Oscar Karlweis) both have to bolt from Paris on the run. The colonel cannot find a car; Jacobowsky finds one but cannot drive. Grandly tossing out Jacobowsky's luggage, the colonel condescends to take the wheel, and off they go-smack toward the Nazis in order to fetch the colonel's pretty mistress (Annabella-see p. 62). From then on, while the colonel remains majestically helpless, Jacobowsky gets the party out of tight squeezes, ferrets out food, locates gasoline. As the colonel's lady becomes more & more admiring of Jacobowsky, the colonel becomes more & more jealous, issues...
Thomas Jefferson founded his University of Virginia for men, but he believed also that women should have "a solid education." Henceforth the University will have girl liberal arts students-but the Charlottesville boys will have to travel 55 miles to Fredericksburg to fetch them to a german. The University last week annexed Fredericksburg's Mary Washington College, named for George Washington's mother, the largest women's college in the State (1,528 students). Formerly a teachers' training school, Mary Washington will specialize in the liberal arts...
...Bike. Robinson's men can do a swift and objective job of reporting. When the 45th first went into action in Sicily, its News .staff went along. Mauldin cycled to beachhead ships to fetch news from their radios and personal experiences of the men. Result: first Allied invasion edition in Sicily, a hand-pressed single sheet. Moving up, the News soon had another extra, delivered by ration box. The headline: "Benito Finite...