Word: johnstons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entered via Canada. Secondary plan of the Government was to deport Mike as an alien, born in Vilna, Russia. But earliest available records of his genesis place him in a Manhattan orphanage. A film company has bought The New Yorker's recent Gerguson serial by Newshawk Alva Johnston...
...water. Two cooks were working in the crew's galley when the wave struck. It stove in the door, ripped open a steel bulkhead, and as the cooks crouched by the wall drove the stove and two half-ton boilers straight through the rear bulkhead. Seaman H. J. Johnston of Portsmouth was in the alleyway. Fifteen minutes later when the water had ebbed enough for an officer and a quartermaster to wade in, Seaman Johnston was found dead, smashed against the wall. On Christmas Eve they buried him at sea. Captain Trant read the service and they slid...
Believing that battles were too often a showy waste of time, Sherman avoided fighting whenever possible. He drove back his able Southern opponent, Joseph Johnston, by continually outflanking him, got almost to Atlanta without a battle. Sherman annoyed his enemy by going at war in a businesslike, persistent way. By products of his campaign, such as living off the country, crippling the enemy by destroying property, began to make him more hated than "Butcher" Grant. But he was successful. News of his capture of Atlanta came just in time to save Lincoln from defeat at the polls. Sherman...
...Sherman was 71. At his military funeral in Manhattan, on a raw February day, a bystander urged one of the aged pallbearers to put on his hat, warned him he might catch his death. The oldster refused, ten days later was dead of pneumonia. That was Joe Johnston...
...forced to reveal what he or she knows of the death. On the surface, as the curtain rises, the Priestley puzzle-pieces are good companions. They are not when the final curtain rings down. The cast of this extremely talky but interesting tour de force includes Colin Keith-Johnston (the terrier-like Captain Stanhope of Journey's End) and caustic, statuesque Jean Dixon (Once In A Lifetime, June Moon...