Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rose City, Mich. (pop. 350), neighbor was set against neighbor. There were secret meetings, plots and stratagems. Mayor Norton King plastered the town with placards: "Keep calm and collected for a few days until we can settle this among ourselves." Old Mrs. Jennie Lazenby said she hadn't seen so much excitement since the lumbering days. The cause of all the rumpus was the Rev. Cecil Scott...
...with appointments for lobotomies (cutting nerves in the brain). There were similar waiting lists elsewhere, and many doctors were getting nervous about the whole subject. They asked: Has the nerve-cutting fad already gone too far; will people who are now getting their nerves cut some day wish they hadn...
...chases assorted desperadoes up & down hill through semi-arid shrubbery and past many picturesque specimens of erosion. The desperadoes chase the stagecoaches. Every so often someone gets shot, plunges from saddle or coachman's seat and rolls over & over. The hero plugs four desperate characters, largely because they hadn't lived long enough to learn that in bright sunlight a man's shadow can forecast his presence, however stealthy...
...celebrate the overwhelming 1936 victory, which Farley had predicted, the Democratic National Committee staged a testimonial dinner for him. Publicity Chief Charles Michelson wanted to reproduce on the dinner program a letter from Roosevelt thanking Farley for his services. Wrote Farley: "I told him [Michelson] I hadn't received such a letter since 1930. Charley growled that, knowing Roosevelt, he wasn't surprised to hear it, but he decided to demand a predated letter of gratitude. This turned up a few days later, and Charley brought it in with a wry smile. It read...
...doctor brusquely asked who had moved Tojo from his chair to a cot, causing blood to gush from his wounds. Several newsmen owned up, a little proudly, to their contribution to the war effort. Nice going, said the doctor. "If that blood hadn't drained out, it would have filled his lungs and drowned him." Instead of killing Tojo, the correspondents had saved him for the war-crime trial which was in its second year last week...