Word: guardsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somebody at the Door is compounded of the stories of the people involved in the murder - Grayling, the murdered man, over 50, grey-eyed, thin, inquisitorial, cold, churchwarden, town councilor, Home Guardsman, petty grafter, a tyrant to his young and pretty wife; Renata, 38, brown-haired, self-seeking, moodily vengeful; Ransom, pickpocket, fugitive, a World War I veteran recovering his self-respect in the Battle of Britain; Mannheim, a German refugee chemist, possibly a spy, square, dark, smuggled out of Germany...
Meanwhile, Berg was taking very good care of his service friends. Jay Gleason's error allowed Jerry Kiley to reach base in the first, but no other Guardsman got on until the fifth, when a walk and Hegan's single were sandwiched between three of Moe's four strikeouts. The visitors loaded the bases with two out an inning later on two walks and Bill Cliggott's double, but Gleason threw out Chet Kasper on a nice play to end the threat...
...women this year. Hereafter, said the Navy last week, relaxing one of its ironclad rules, WAVES, Coast Guard SPARS and Marine Reserves may marry anyone they choose. Hitherto, they had been forbidden to marry within their own branch of the service (i.e., a WAVE could marry a Coast Guardsman or a marine, but not a Navy...
...considered by most party leaders and officers as the real leader of the Republican Party. . . . They do not consider his 'international meddling' in line with Republican policy. Pennsylvania's Pew-Grundy organization has been strengthened considerably by the election of Governor Edward Martin, an Old Guardsman. Both Pew and Grundy are New Deal haters and a little afraid of Willkie's progressiveness. They would be much happier with a quieter and more conservative...
...anchor and sailed after the girl but only went hard aground. The dinghy drifted on into a marsh while Wakefield frantically waved red flares for help and SOS'd till the batteries were dead. Nobody came. Pamela stumbled through the marsh to the home of a vacationing Coast Guardsman and next morning returned with him to the stranded yacht...