Word: hawley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...below-zero Sunday 40-odd years ago, a Lutheran minister made his way across frozen snowdrifts in a horse and buggy to keep his preaching schedule at five different churches in and around Hawley, Minn. In the winter and spring of 1958, the minister's son, Presidential Assistant Gabriel Hauge, showed the same old-fashioned fortitude in the face of icy winds of another kind. With the U.S. economy slipping downward, panicky cries for drastic federal intervention rang out in Washington and across the U.S. But calm, articulate Gabriel Hauge, sometime economics teacher at Princeton and Harvard, economics assistant...
...there was a large-eared, drip-nosed fugitive from multiplication and Sunday school ... He lived in the Victorian, gabled, ginger-bready house of his maternal grandpa, a sea captain with a bushy mustache. This man's name was Edward Hall Adkins. The Negroes called him Cap'n Hawley and the white folks called him Ned Hall. Ned could shoot very fine and whittle very good and in his eyes a small boy was never never very wrong...
...condemning Kris. Said Illinois' Dr. Edwin S. Hamilton, chairman of the A.M.A.'s board of trustees: "Not one doctor in a thousand would have charged a fee. We strongly disagree with the action of the doctor."* Said the head of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Paul Hawley: "A terrible thing...
...fellow's sister was sort of sacred when Frank Merriwell went to Yale. There have been changes since. Cramming on summer vacation from Hawley School, A.D. 1935, future Yaleman McGough, G. F. turned to future Yaleman Baxter, C. K. and said: "Now, about this sister of yours, Baxter. Which does she prefer, rape or seduction...
...Hawley, a medium-posh Connecticut prep school, the thoughts of youth are wrong, wrong thoughts, and the masters are "worn and cynical far beyond their years." Pupils are not, as at nearby Hotchkiss, "under oath" to abstain from smoking; Hawley's "deadly droops" (a Hotchkiss epithet) are merely forbidden this pleasure. For characters like Baxter (an outcast because he arrived from the West Coast, of all places, in a brown suit and porkpie hat) and for McGough (who suffers the crippling handicap of being the headmaster's son), there is only one thing to do at Hawley-defeat...