Word: named
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bowl of corn flakes and milk in a house in the Roxbury section of Boston; some kids had come upon him wandering about the street, and had taken him home. One of the cops looked over the child in the tattered dresses and rumbled: "What's your name, little girl?" Piped the child: "I'm not a little girl. I'm a boy." His name, he said, was Gerald. Later, from clues he gave them, they found his mother, Mrs. Anna Sullivan, 45, in her third-floor apartment over on Terry Street...
Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.) saw the Roman Empire begin to crumble about him in war, invasion, pestilence and revolution. A great Stoic, he wrote: "Soon, very soon, thou wilt be ashes, or a skeleton, and either a name or not even a name . . . Why then dost thou not wait in tranquillity for thy end?" The U.S. Navy, contemplating the atomic age, last week achieved a comparable attitude...
...Italian towns and villages last week workers attended "feasts of liberty." Fireworks and oratory popped triumphantly. Two thousand anti-Communist soapboxers, doorbell ringers and pamphlet carriers crowded into Rome's shiny, modern Cinema Metropolitan, hoarsely chanting the name of Luigi Gedda. Finally, a brawny, firm-jawed man rose from his seat in the first row and brusquely acknowledged the cheers. He was the chief strategist of Italy's Catholic Action movement; he had just led his followers to a notable victory...
Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh left the baby Prince Charles at home and went off to judge floats in a student carnival. As winner they picked one depicting Britain's first steam railway train. The float's name: "Our Charlie...
...Irish painter prefers to wear his own hair trimmed short and to roll about Belfast and Dublin in hand-woven tweed plus-fours, red suede shoes and a black beret. His would be a notable figure in any landscape; in Ireland, which has produced hardly any painting worth the name,* Middleton is a current sensation...