Word: grocers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grocer to a famished world, the U.S. found that openhanded promises were far easier to make than deliveries...
...childhood sweethearts, Olive Ewing and Raymond Clapper lived a block apart in Kansas City's (Kan.) packinghouse district. The grocer's daughter and the laborer's son went to the same Sunday school, the same high school. One day when Olive had just turned 17, they kept a date on a streetcar. She told him her father's ultimatum: stop seeing-that Clapper boy, or you'll be sent away to stay with relatives. Said Ray: "Let's get married...
Then the monarch went back to his hobbies: billiards and turning the handle of his grocer's bacon-slicer...
...going home to his father's for Christmas in Whitman, Mass. Asked if his appointment made this his happiest homecoming, he said: "The happiest was the day I came home ordained after five years away and said Mass for my father and mother." The onetime grocer's boy and champion horseshoe pitcher, now the able and beloved shepherd of Catholicism's richest archdiocese, is one of Pius XII's closest friends, served under him in Rome. He may become Vatican Secretary of State...
...grocer and his family are not an edifying crew. The grocer (played with enthusiastic hatred by Character Actor Vladimir Vladislavsky), is hoarding all the money which his former employer, a Jew, left in his safekeeping. By law, he should have turned over half of it to the Reich. The grocer's daughter and her crippled fiance use this knowledge to blackmail him into setting up the fiance to a store of his own. The grocer's son, when he comes home on leave from the Russian front, is half insane with contempt for his family; and his pathological...