Word: hooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robin Hood Dell, Philadelphia: Ezio Pinza, Oscar Levant, William Kapell, soloists; Monteux, Fritz Reiner, Andre Kostalanetz conducting...
...Attention!" called Colonel Walter R. Graham, Landsberg's U.S. commandant. Blobel stiffened; the hangman and his assistants slipped a black hood over Blobel's head, adjusted the heavy noose. A priest intoned a prayer. The trap sprang open with a clatter...
...Benedictine monk who might have been a figure in one of her own drawings today. "He had an air which did not please me, an aspect rough and terrible. He was wearing a strange, black costume-austere, and with lines that recalled an earlier, more primitive age-a pointed hood, a belt of leather. What end was he seeking? I wondered. The austere grandeur of his habit, of that belt which hung from his waist, somehow entangled my heart in a way that was incurable." In 1917 she was admitted to the Benedictines of the Rue Monsieur...
...done much to earn some of these fees, but he stoutly denied that his friends in the White House had ever helped him. One exception, he recalled, was a meeting he arranged between a group of pro-Truman Mississippians, headed by state National Committeeman Clarence S. Hood Jr., and Donald S. Dawson. As a result of the meeting, the Mississippians were eventually placed in charge of dispensing federal patronage in the state of Mississippi-until they were kicked out two months ago after an investigation into federal job-selling...
...Best Friend. On Mount Hood, Ore., Innkeeper George North had to hike out into the snows to rescue the inn's St. Bernard, stranded for four days on a rocky ledge...