Word: harriet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed Carlisle Indian School as a second-string quarterback, squat, copper-colored, greying Charlie Cloud is described as one who "thinks in Indian and writes in English." Thumbing a ride weekly from the Indian mission six miles north to the Banner-Journal office, he calmly usurps Editor Harriet Thomas Noble's desk to pencil his weekly stint on scratch paper, after which he generally cozens a taxi fare home from her. His choice of subjects is limitless, ranging from the weather ("The weather is change wind every half day and person getting catch cold easy") to the latest blessed...
...Married. Harriet Aldrich, 22, pretty, biochemist daughter of Chase National Bank Chairman Winthrop Aldrich; and Lieut. Edgar A. Bering Jr., 27, Navy research doctor at the Harvard Medical School; in Manhattan...
Died. Eunice Tietjens, 60, poetess, longtime associate editor of Harriet Monroe's Poetry: A Magazine of Verse; of cancer; in Chicago. A member of Chicago's Hammond -piano -manufacturing family, genteel, bespectacled Miss Tietjens was a World War I correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, wrote vers libre in the school and era of the late Amy Lowell...
Jack Haley, Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard get mixed up with a Dude Ranch and try to make the place a financial success. Amid bucking bronchos and strutting cowgirls, Haley and his hapless friends go through the usual routine of a grade B filler, avoiding new twists and good jokes like the plague...
Anna was a more subversive influence than anyone knew. She read Uncle Tom's Cabin to the slaves. Her favorite pupil among the King's wives, Son Klim, signed her letters, "Harriet Beecher Stowe Son Klim." Once Anna found the wives bidding for an 18-months-old white baby girl, the child of a native woman and an English sailor. Anna bought both mother and child for $72 to save them from slavery...