Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trouble began when half the Penman's employees showed up for work. On the first day there was a scuffle at the mill gates. Ailing Mrs. Charles Cardy, 45, a Penman's worker for 20 years, collapsed in the snow, later died in the hospital. Although the coroner ruled that Mrs. Cardy's death was not caused by strike violence, the Town Council was taking no chances. They called in the Ontario provincial police to help halt the daily mix-up between strikers and nonstrikers. The provincials seized a blackjack from one worker. Two policemen were stabbed...
Other families were ripped apart. Mrs. William Mann and one of her daughters were among the Penman's employees who stayed on the job. Her son, Harold, and another daughter sided with the pickets, who jeered at old friends and relatives at the plant gates...
...philanthropic work in Los Angeles, where she was once a movie star, Marion Davies, fiftyish, was cited on the radio by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and daughter Anna as "the woman of the day." Mrs. Roosevelt was in line for a distinction of her own: granddaughter Sistie Boettiger Seagraves would present her in midsummer with her first great-grandchild. In an eventful week, the former First Lady did some reminiscing about how much her late husband had enjoyed movies. But, she recalled, he fell asleep during Gone With the Wind and was quite angry on waking up to find that...
Giveaway radio outdid itself last week by showering diamonds, ermine and trips to Monte Carlo on an elderly Negro couple in Philadelphia. For correctly guessing the name of Stop the Music's martial mystery tune (The Navy and the Army, The Army and the Navy) Mrs. Julia Hubert, 58, and her husband, Benjamin, 75, a former Navy Yard employee, were promised $35,250 worth of prizes...
Dazed but by no means dazzled, Mrs. Hubert said firmly: "It hasn't changed my routine of living and it isn't going to. I've had a car and a good life before." Then, settling down to counting her winnings, Mrs. Hubert decided to keep: a $1,000 U.S. savings bond; a man's and woman's wardrobe, each valued at $1,500; a year's supply of candy, flowers, shaving lotion and cologne; free haircuts for five years; a $1,200 living room suite; a $1,000 radio-phonograph-television...