Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walda Eileen Winchell, 18-year-old daughter of Walter, who writes for the Hearst press, was sued for divorce by Boston Art Student William Lawless, 29. The disgruntled bridegroom asked for alimony. (Three days after the marriage last June, Gossip Winchell announced-for his daughter: "We made a mistake. After a heart to heart talk we decided to call...
Elfego decided to become a Socorro County deputy sheriff one afternoon when five drunken cowboys castrated a Mexican while a peace officer stood idly nearby. Elfego believed the law should be as strong as the lawless. One day, after he was made a deputy, he arrested a cowboy who shot his hat off. Eighty enraged ranch hands galloped into the tough town of Upper Frisco to rescue their comrade and avenge the indignity of the arrest. Sheriff Baca locked himself in a mud-and-log hut, kept his six-shooters blazing for 36 hours, pausing only long enough...
...atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world. That is why Great Britain, Canada and the United States, who have the secret of its production, do not intend to reveal that secret until means have been found to control the bomb so as to protect ourselves and the rest of the world from the danger of total destruction...
Walter Winchell's blonde, 18-year-old actress-daughter Eileen-known to her friends as Walda, known professionally as Toni Eden-pulled a surprise wedding on her usually alert father. The groom: William Lawless, 29, art-student son of a retired Boston motorman. Next day Winchell reported the event with characteristic aplomb: "First man to scoop Walter Winchell in a long time is William Lawless. . . .'' Two days later, father scooped son-in-law by announcing that daughter had decided to annul...
Germans muttered a shuddery word: Feme, from the Old German veme, meaning punishment. Cornered Nazis were turning back to the lawless early '20s, when Feme courts spread terror among republicans. They planned a second revival of the medieval Feme, the law of the days of the robber barons...