Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heat wave set off all kinds of trouble. In New Haven, Conn, and Milton, Mass., firemen had to turn up and cool off drawbridges which had expanded in the heat. Indianapolis had a plague of Peeping Toms. In Lakeview, Mich., a 16-year-old boy fainted while cutting wood, toppled into a buzz saw, and was killed. By week's end 147 people had died, mostly from heat prostration. New York police, ordered to help keep the city's water consumption down to 1,300,000 gallons a day, were driven wild by wrench-waving gangs who turned...
...table, the big man wrote: "How could these things have happened-I can't see, unless it's that I haven't allowed for age and the continuous work through the war and under such pressure since, explains that my mind, my ability has slipped...
...Comeback?" said the Boss. "I haven't gone anywhere. When a fellow's still at home, that's with his home folks, that's satisfying. As long as a fellow can go along with the folks that have known him all these years . . . he's not going anywhere. I have been elected 26 times without being defeated. I have assisted others 87 times without defeat. Altogether, 110 times in 45½ years. Why should I come back? Any man who hasn't got enough to take a defeat is a poor...
...Miss Blyth is about as ichthyoid as you can get and still interest more forward-looking vertebrates. During the long buildup to her first appearance there seems to be some hope for the movie; but once they have a mermaid on their hands, the people who made the picture haven't even a Peabody's idea what to do with her. Once, under water, they get her to dab at her tears; the balance of their ingenuity is exhausted in keeping one thing & another between the censors and her bosom...
...early Christian martyrs. But I can truthfully say that the Communists have not come to me, as such. I saw one hurriedly in a railroad station not long ago. I don't recall his name. I told him I believed in progressive capitalism. That stopped him and I haven't heard from the Communists since...