Word: kirke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arraignment, a plea of guilty, and sentencing by Judge Paul G. Kirk followed almost as speedily as the rapid disposal of the U. S. Government's 119 theft and forgery counts against Parkhurst. The accused again waived defense and jury trial, this time against the three indictments of the country grand jury...
...Sporting Club in Monte Carlo, the fabulously wealthy Aga Khan was moved to dance in public for the first time in 17 years, happily jounced his globular person (250 Ibs.) through a rumba with Ballerina Yvonna Chauvire (no Ibs.). In Chicago, retired Soapmaker Walter R. Kirk (Jap Rose, Kirk's Flakes) was sued for a separation by Wife Louisa, who said he was 72, charged him with adultery in 22 instances. (Not so, said Kirk-besides...
...Kirk of Brooklyn leave well enough alone...
...embassies were loaded, too. Ike Eisenhower's wartime right hand, General Walter Bedell Smith, was in Moscow. Vice Admiral Alan G. Kirk, who had a big part in the Navy show at Sicily and Normandy, was in Belgium. The Marines onetime commandant. General Thomas Holcomb, was in South Africa...
Later, Saragat's and Matteotti's rebels joined forces in an "Anti-Congress," held in the magnificent, 17th Century Palazzo Barberini (former residence of U.S. Ambassador Alexander C. Kirk). The most important catch of the Nenni Socialists was Novelist Ignazio Silone (Bread and Wine), who has long opposed fusion with the Communists, but apparently could not bring him,self to split with his old party. Saragat succinctly summed up his own reasons for splitting: "I would infinitely prefer to side with our Socialist Comrade Attlee than with Comrade Tito." Said Nenni: "What has happened is an episode...