Word: gerald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discredited Ku Klux Klan is operating in Detroit; that wartime industry has brought to the city numerous white workers from the South who have deep racial feelings; that housing conditions are bad; that Detroit is a fertile field for crackpots and agitators of all kinds, like the sinister Gerald L. K. Smith . . . that new employment opportunities, as well as the general ferment of ideas caused by the war, have given the Negroes greater economic power and greater ambitions. ... It would have been far more wholesome if the committee . . . had addressed itself to the need for better housing, to an examination...
...this a picture of Governmental bungling? It shows a carload and a half of potatoes dumped by the War Food Administration at the Vincennes, Ind. municipal dump. Republican Congressman Gerald Landis of Indiana charged that 37 carloads of potatoes, worth $60.000, had rotted in Vincennes' storage plants. He demanded an investigation. WFA, anxious to make a molehill out of the potato mountain, said that most of the 37 carloads in Vincennes would yet be saved, that only the carload and a half are a complete loss. Elsewhere in the nation, only 50 of 6,422 carloads of Government potatoes...
...Longest Journey Forster despises his hero, Gerald, because Gerald is a prig and a bully. But he gives to Gerald's death "a kind of primitive dignity" by describing the servants who wept: "They had not liked Gerald, but he was a man, they were women, he had died." In A Passage To India, Cyril Fielding, who as a bachelor bravely opposed Anglo-Indian snobbism and narrowness, becomes snobbish and narrow himself when he marries and becomes an official. Dr. Aziz changes from the sensitive, enlightened Indian to an impudent, cocksure babu...
Charles Dickens' great-grandson, British Naval Lieut. Peter Gerald Charles, got the D.S.O. for skillful and daring attacks "in enemy coastal waters...
...this country is becoming a current which might easily become a tidal wave. . . . When a tide sets in in American politics, it is likely to go too far. . . . Next autumn or next year, the editor of the Gazette may be standing shoulder to shoulder with Senators Burt Wheeler and Gerald Nye, Colonel McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, and Senator Curly Brooks, jamming on the brakes and grinding the gears to slow down the millennium...