Word: hood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than Salvatore Giuliano. A swart, 25-year-old ex-black marketeer, who began his career with the killing of a customs officer, Salvatore has totted up a spine-chilling record of robbery, blackmail, murder and kidnaping. Yet to many a Sicilian, Giuliano is a hero as revered as Robin Hood. Sicilian police have long since promised not to bother him provided that he kills no policemen. On Palermo's walls, signs calling for "Giuliano for President" are common sights...
Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel was a hood with class. His home outside Beverly Hills was a tourist showpiece. He dined with Barbara Hutton, went yachting with Countess Dorothy di Frasso...
...Instead of the traditional cap & gown, George Marshall wore a business suit, General Omar Bradley his Army uniform. Explained Harvard's President James B. Conant: "We put no hood on those receiving degrees . . . uniforms and civilian dress are quite usual. . . . Dress is optional...
Menotti: Sebastian Ballet Suite (Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). Delightful, polished, contemporary ballet music, with plenty of Puccini-like melody. Performance: excellent...
...were the others." Screamed the camp dentist as the rope was fastened: "Lord help me! ... I thought the American troops were here for justice & freedom." But death was welcomed, after a fashion, by August Eigruber, once Gauleiter of Upper Austria. "I consider it ... an honor," he snarled as the hood was placed over his head, "to be tried and hanged by the most inhuman of all victors." Anton Kaufmann was less resigned. Snapping the cords about his wrists as he plunged through the trap, he grasped the rope above his head. Kicking & squirming, he fought for 18 minutes before...